Hairdriers make you forget for a while
Using a hairdrier could damage your short-term memory - but it recovers as soon as the device is switched off, say researchers at the University of Bristol. Alan Preece and his colleagues conducted...
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Drug addiction linked to availability
When cocaine is readily available, people are more likely to become addicts rather than mere drug users, researchers have found. Scientists gave rats access to cocaine. One group had an hour's access...
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Downturn or turned off?
David Blunkett is worried that mature students are being put off by fees. But the decline in acceptances could be down to demography. Natasha Loder reports. A startling decline in the numbers of...
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FEFC acts on complaint
Funding council investigators are examining Whistleblowers' revelations that managers at Matthew Boulton College have contravened the rules of college governance. The Further Education Funding...
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One-man band brings 15 cases to tribunals
Whistleblowers is following with interest a one-man campaign to keep university personnel managers on their toes. After being turned down for a senior lectureship at the University of Central England...
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Cambridge wins day's costs at price of two
Cambridge University successfully recovered a day's legal costs in its battle with lecturer Gill Evans in the High Court last week - but only at the cost of an extra two days in court. Dr Evans has...
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Sources for research funding
Each fortnight this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk Action Research Promotes research into disability, with an...
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Dutch plug gap with English
The Dutch are excellent speakers of English. However, the idea of being taught in English was unheard of until recently. Students might read mostly English textbooks but they spoke and wrote in Dutch...
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Office move
Sue Peacock has left the CTI Support Service to run the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association administration in its new home at Oxford University. The association's members are...
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Don's Diary
Thursday. Conference season is over at last! I have just returned from the fifth Symposium on Electronic Noses, held in Baltimore this year. There were about 200 people there - manufacturers,...
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Mistaken identity
The talk at Unesco's world higher education conference may have centred on issues of globalisation, but it was still a surprise to see Clive Booth, chairman of the Teacher Training Agency and former...
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On the move
Sir Garry Johnson, 61, chairman of the International Defence Advisory Board to the Baltic States and Republic of Georgia and director of his own consultancy, will stand down as chairman of the TEC...
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Glittering prizes
Colin Dexter, creator of Oxford sleuth Inspector Morse, has received an honorary doctorate of letters from Oxford Brookes University. Other recent honorary degrees awarded by the university include:...
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Geneva
Nobel prize-winner Carlo Rubbia's latest invention is a fission fragment-powered space engine designed to transport astronauts to Mars in 45 days, rather than the three years, and allow voyages to...
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College goes underground
All students are welcome at the College de France provided there is room. Space is the only restriction on access. Founded in the Renaissance, the state-owned Paris college is undergoing a second...