Soft subjects suffer low esteem
Scientists and the public share doubts about research, but findings in social science are least respected, say Richard Wiseman and Caroline Watt A few weeks ago we conducted a survey of delegates and...
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Going public will bolster global profile of UK science
Lloyd Anderson surveys the British Council's efforts to foster partnerships and raise awareness of UK creativity The United Kingdom is highly regarded for education, but it falls into a second...
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Martian 'meteorites' feel the heat
The hunt for "missing" Martian meteorites has been boosted by a successful mission to put similar terrestrial rock fragments into orbit and then subject them to the rigours of re-entry, writes Steve...
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Russians lack cash for study
MOSCOW Russian students wishing to study abroad are more than 100 times more likely to gain grants or financing from education and training programmes in the United States as in Britain, university...
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Cybercafe
(Photograph) - Celebrity chef Nick Nairn samples dishes from a local Asian company, Mrs Unis Spicy Food, to launch a high-tech sensory evaluation suite at Queen Margaret University College in...
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'Red tape' threatens drug research in UK
Pharmaceutical research in the United Kingdom faces a slow death if the new National Institute for Clinical Excellence turns out to be a red-tape garotte, leading academics have warned. Amid the row...
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Subject panels in need of 'users' to get funding
Funding for research in languages, maths, law, geography and psychology may suffer because the panels assessing them for the next research assessment exercise do not include industry and public...
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Pay the local way
According to David Mee, personnel director at the University of Central England (Letters, THES, September 24) the Bett committee should have listened to P. C. Knight and recommended the abolition of...
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Smart cards smooth path to college
Alan Thomson reports from the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth this week Further education students are to be offered smart cards to store personal information, monitor college attendance and...
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The confusion over whether teaching itself should count towards the RAE
The subject panels judging university research have made proposals on assessment, but they are still unsure about how to assess research on teaching their subjects. Until now research into the...
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Wicks way on lifelong brief
Alan Thomson reports from the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth this week Malcolm Wicks could not have put it better. Just hours after Tony Blair's love-it-or-loathe-it speech, the newest...
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University safety record panned
Environmental watchdogs have criticised universities' "arrogance" about health and safety. The warning came as Cambridge University pleaded guilty to three criminal charges of losing a package of...
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Welcome aboard
(Photograph) - Students started work this week at Greenwich University's new Pounds 20 million campus, on the site of the old Royal Naval College. Teaching is based in Queen Anne Court, built by Sir...
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QAA to impose externals code
Uniform rules designed to end "wide variations" in the roles, responsibilities and powers of universities' external examiners are to be imposed by 2001 amid concerns that some universities are using...
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Snout placement
(Photograph) - Sophie Clapp, a social anthropology student at St Andrews University, spends her final days of summer holiday at the Sorley Tunnel adventure farm in Loddiswell, Devon, where she has...