Aspire or expire
(Photograph) - US academics are taking lessons from media consultants in how to match the Ivy League's heavyweight image. "What we do is important," they must learn to say, and say it well.
<榴莲视频 class="pane-title">
搜索
-
-
US-type training urged to up output
Britain should develop an American-style mass education system if it is to match the economic productivity performance of the United States, says the National Institute of Economic and Social...
-
Junior academics strike for pay deal
Israel's universities have again been hit by strikes. Several thousand junior academic staff say they will not return to work until the university heads committee recognises their union. Laboratory...
-
Bayrou promises to include all views at launch of strategy talks
Talks on the future of the university system have got under way at the French education ministry, where all representative bodies, unions, committees and associations have been invited to help draw...
-
Privates face privation
Ireland's expanding private college sector has been dealt a second blow within a year by Northern Ireland education minister Michael Ancram's announcement that fees and maintenance grants for...
-
Vatican theft: accused prof goes on trial
Retired professor and art expert Anthony Melnikas, the veteran researcher accused of cutting pages from a Vatican manuscript with a penknife and later attempting to sell them to a rare book dealer,...
-
Faculty dash to brush up up their image
At tiny Lesley College, in the shadow of Harvard University, an anthropologist has been lecturing his audience about the impact of eye contact and body language - and how to dress for television...
-
Diving to an early death
Improving the health of Filipino divers is the aim of research under way at Bangor University's department of radiography education. Decompression sickness is a major problem among Asian divers who,...
-
An idea not to be sniffed at
A student's brainwave has given dairies an electronic nose for business. It also won him the Business and Technology Education Council student of the year award. Nicholas Aikenhead saw an...
-
Infant growth link to osteoporosis
Researchers at Southampton University are investigating whether the seeds of osteoporosis are sown in early life. The Wellcome Trust has awarded more than Pounds 40,000 to the Medical Research...
-
The great balloon debate
Seven scientists are plunging to earth in an overloaded hot air balloon. Six of them must jump out if the balloon is to be light enough for just one to float to safety. But who should be the lucky...
-
Nursery staff want equality
Thes reporters look at the increased pressure for improved childcare in universities. Public service union Unison is taking Oxford Brookes University to an industrial tribunal as part of its campaign...
-
Fast-track physios
Glasgow Caledonian University has launched the country's first accelerated postgraduate degree for physiotherapy. A qualification to practise physiotherapy usually comes through a three-year degree...
-
Scots give boost to part-timers
The Scottish Office is pressing for an increase in part-time education amid calls for a better deal for part-timers in terms of student support and course quality assurance. Ed Weeple, Scottish...
-
Creche course in satisfying the customers
Thes reporters look at the increased pressure for improved childcare in universities The experiences of those who run existing campus-based childcare facilities and the parents who use them...