Spelling bee stings
Danish university students are furious over a new ministerial order stipulating that spelling and grammar must be included when assignments are assessed. "Whether the students can spell is not...
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Homework motivators
Primary school pupils will be pleased to hear that research at the Institute of Education reveals that homework is not always a good thing. Susan Hallam and Richard Cowan told the education Section...
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Star Turn
Alison Utley sits in as the cling-film man of geology tells his Open University students how plant fossils can reveal the earth's climate of 100 million years ago After a quick rub down with a towel...
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Devolution threatens worldwide standing
Vice-chancellors have voiced fears that devolution and regional policies could undermine the international standing of British higher education. They are worried that devolved powers in Scotland and...
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Malaysian students back threatened deputy leader
University students and academics in their thousands have surrounded the home of Malaysia's sacked deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim in a show of support that is preventing his arrest, writes Geoffrey...
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Competition pushes gene project deadline forward
Researchers are intending to accelerate the international project to identify all of our 100,000 genes. At a meeting this week in the United States, the heads of the $3 billion human genome project...
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Rome
Italian universities are under instructions to start organising courses in line with the "Sorbonne Agreement" signed with France, Britain and Germany in Paris in May. The idea is to harmonise...
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Eye witness
Millions of birds are beginning their annual migration from Northern Europe to their wintering grounds in the Mediterranean and Africa. The journey is tough enough at the best of times, especially...
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The salaries league table begins
It is only a matter of time before pay is ranked by subject, says Andrew Oswald Professors of computing, economics or chemistry may soon earn much more than professors of music, art or languages in...
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Avoiding future shock
Pensions in higher and further education are undergoing their biggest reforms in 20 years. Harriet Swain reports. Tomorrow's academic OAPs will retire into a new pensions world thanks to a thorough...
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Meditations on identity in the spaceland of MOO
HIGH WIRED: On the Design, Use and Theory of Educational MOOs Cynthia Haynes and Jan Rune Holmevik University of Michigan Press 342pp Pounds 34.00 and Pounds 14.50. ISBN 0 472 09665 6 and 0 472 06665...
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Electric touch
(Photograph) - A plasma globe at the Herstmonceux Science Centre near Hailsham in East Sussex responding to touch. The centre occupies the telescope domes abandoned by the Royal Greenwich Observatory...
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Centre for whether we are what we eat
The Medical Research Council is setting up a resource centre for nutrition research in Cambridge employing up to 70 staff.
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Meningitis vaccine in the pipeline
The Department of Health, the Meningitis Research Foundation and National Meningitis Foundation has launched a meningitis awareness campaign. A vaccine is in the pipeline.
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Get virtual, v-cs urged
Vice-chancellors hold their annual meeting in Manchester next week. Tony Tysome reports. British universities are facing "very serious challenges" from global and corporate competitors, vice-...