Tipping depends on personality
To tip or not to tip - it is a question that often baffles and embarrasses the international traveller abroad. A new study, however, has found there are strong cultural clues that could guide the...
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Dickens knew his disorders
Charles Dickens was not only a brilliant social observer but was also well ahead of his time in his observations of neurological disorders. A study of the Victorian author's works has revealed...
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Windy problem is solved
The answer was blowing in the wind. Experts have for the first time calculated the mathematically correct way to fly a flag and fill a sail. Alistair Fitt and PhD students Martin Pope and Tim...
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Star Turn
Tony Tysome hums and cackles with students on a blue gym mat while a world expert in voice training sets the right tone It seems as if I have stumbled into a clearing in some magical forest,...
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A case of mistaken identities
Nadia Lovell describes her experience as a 'white' woman teaching 'black' students in Britain about African history and culture. My first experience of teaching theories of religion at a British...
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Agony aunt
Q More and more of my time is taken up by meetings, which are increasingly interfering with my teaching preparation. Can anything be done to speed them up? A Sally Brown, Director of membership...
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Medical 'crisis': 74 chairs vacant
Medical schools face a crisis recruiting top researchers to clinical chairs. An unpublished survey reveals that at least 74 of the 401 established positions in the United Kingdom are vacant. A...
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Solar, so good, for UK fusion
The European effort to harness the power of the sun has been taken over by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. The transfer of ownership of the Joint European Torus at Culham in Oxfordshire...
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Drop-outs still get loan
Students who drop out during their first term at university will still receive the second instalment of their loans following delays in data collection by the Student Loans Company. The SLC will pay...
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Turk students face study ban
Turkish students face the prospect of political restrictions on studying abroad following concern that they are coming into contact with radical Islamic groups. Parliament is proposing introducing...
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Exploding great green whoppers
The myth that rainforests are vital to the earth is damaging policy-making and the search for scientific truth, says Philip Stott Do we really need rainforests? For the Greens that is a rhetorical...
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IT news in brief
The internet will transform relations between patients and health professions, Southampton University research reveals. Michael Hardy of the university's school of nursing and midwifery looked at how...
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Rich pickings follow forced cuts
MONTREAL Canadian universities have received their highest revenues ever, despite two decades of declining government spending. The increase, say the authors of a recent report, has been earned on...
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Breaking the web
A computer program that can quell children's fear of spiders will be revealed at the Association for Child Psychology and Psychiatry's European conference at the Commonwealth Institute in London in...
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France warns US: hands off
PARIS French education minister Claude Allegre has criticised the United States for trying to foist its education system on Europe, which he warned could result in the privatisation of the service...