Humans are the best lie detectors
Agricultural policy, smart salmon and sex-change chickens at the British Association's annual festival of science in Leeds Human beings could be better at detecting lies than polygraphs, but husbands...
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How salmon stay in pink
Some are just cold fish, others are hot strategists but all salmon have different personalities that affect how they hunt for food, writes Julia Hinde. Researchers from Edinburgh and Glasgow...
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Cash-troubled university loses second top man
TROUBLED Glasgow Caledonian University has lost a senior manager in a wave of early retirements. Brian Fraser, senior assistant principal with responsibility for human resources and the university's...
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Yes lobby battles to win Welsh sceptics
OUTSIDE the principality itself, there is a distinct danger that next week's Welsh referendum will be seen merely as a tailpiece to yesterday's Scottish poll. That order of precedence and perception...
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NVQ trainer sues council
A LEADING training organisation is suing the Further Education Funding Council for England over Pounds 3.2 million in unpaid bills for franchised courses. CRT Group plc claims it earned the money for...
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Into the big time with big bucks
Whether it is watching river flows, cash flows or linguistic flow, the three subjects below are attracting students ACCOUNTING graduates appear a little unloved. First, accountancy firms say they...
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Communicating with a continent
Whether it is watching river flows, cash flows or linguistic flow, the three subjects below are attracting students NO ONE in the United Kingdom studies for a single honours in African languages, but...
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Where greens can go global
Whether it is watching river flows, cash flows or linguistic flow, the three subjects below are attracting students GEOGRAPHY straddles the boundaries between science, social science and arts. It is...
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Mother in trouble for son's exam
AN ASSISTANT professor at Cassino University in southern Italy has come under fire for heading an exam commission which examined her own son. Lia Santucci teaches geometry at the engineering...
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Pisa's tower of computer babel
In the 1950s, Nobel-winning physicist Enrico Fermi spurred Italy to build its first electronic computer. That machine, a vast construction of tubes, transistors and electro-mechanical switches, will...
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French aid poor but bright
FRENCH education minister Claude Allegre has said that the poorest students today are receiving less support to go through university than did their predecessors a quarter of a century ago. He...
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Jobless graduates get money back
TWO private higher education colleges in Germany are offering students their money back if they cannot find a job within four or six months of graduating. The private Fachhochschule or technical...
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Wits search for chief ends with a white
The University of the Wi****ersrand has finally found a new leader after a two-year search. Most surprisingly, the next vice chancellor will be that rather endangered of South African species - a...
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Degrees shake-up
KENYA's five public universities have embarked on a major degree restructuring programme to tailor courses closer to the economy following a rise in graduate unemployment and underemployment. The...
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Uganda gets tough on welfare
The Ugandan government has scrapped needy students' allowances in Makerere University as a first step towards introducing full-cost tuition and boarding fees in higher education, writes Wachira...