Starting small in 1986, the public understanding of science has become big business. National Science Week - which starts today - is a timely point for the House of Lords to think what happens next....
Warning bells should be ringing in ministerial ears this week as signs of frustration with the government's widening participation policy emerged in higher education ("Swapping the ghetto for the...
Is a degree worth anything in the jobs market these days? Richard Pearson outlines the employment prospects for students The economy is booming, but many of this year's 200,000 graduate job seekers...
Whistleblowers was critical of the Asian University of Science and Technology and its association with Imperial College (THES, February 25). I am proud to have been the founding dean of engineering...
WHAT Tutors are expected to guide students through huge chunks of course material at Open University schools WHY Tutors, like students, need to have confidence in their academic and social abilities...
* The OU offered 235 residential schools for students on undergraduate degree-level courses in 1999 * 22,310 students attended these schools * About 25,000 students are studying at the OU at any one...
Q Many of my colleagues do not want to take their full holiday entitlement because of their career commitments. I need the break, but I feel guilty about wanting to spend time with my family. What...
Scientists are duty-bound to explain the significance of their work to the public, says Frank Close In National Science Week 1993 the minister for science, William Waldegrave, set high-energy...
There is no evidence that patients are being prompted to invent memories, says Bernice Andrews False memory syndrome hit the headlines in the early 1990s. Though it has never enjoyed official medical...
Junior common room president at St Mary's College, Durham, one of five single-sex colleges in the UK When I first came to St Mary's, Durham University's only all-girl college, my mum thought that was...
The city of Cambridge is filled with some extraordinary buildings, some beautiful, others less so. Many of the people who live, work and shop among those buildings have no connection with what goes...
Why is Britain not making the most of its innovations? The fault does not lie with academics, says Michael Rennie Why do university academics get the feeling that as well as providing an education...
A cosmological mystery that seems to defy modern physics has emerged from the graceful spinning of spiral galaxies. Analysis by David Roscoe, a mathematician at the University of Sheffield, has...
A new breed of healthy transgenic pigs has been created to produce leaner meat. The swine, which have been bred successfully through two generations from the creation of their genetically modified...
Pollen from genetically modified Bt-corn - the transgenic plant that some believe poses a threat to butterflies - does no harm to honey bees. New research has shown the Bt toxin, produced by...