Courses count drop-outs down under
Four in every ten students in Australia are significantly less successful in their first year at university than they were in their final year at school and up to half drop out of some courses. The...
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Research fears unfounded
Olga Wojtas reports from the ever-expanding world of geographers at the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers annual conference in Strathclyde. Research councils are keen to...
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Sign of the times
(Photograph) - Sign of the times: Strathclyde University research student Neil McInroy has been investigating the impact of urban change on local communities. Although local people feel that streets...
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Gaelic revival myth scotched by student
A Strathclyde University research student has thrown cold water over the recent outpouring of enthusiasm about a Gaelic revival. The Scottish Office Education Department, says Gaelic language and...
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Dissent down on la ferme
Views of traditional farming in rural France are bound up with family values which keep women in a subordinate role, according to Lise Saugeres of the Rural Geography Studies Group. Ms Saugeres, a...
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Common core for subject must be resisted
Geography must resist pressures for a common core curriculum in higher education, according to Michael Bradford, senior lecturer at Manchester University. Dr Bradford said that a national curriculum...
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Literary odyssey of Russian
Research is something of a heroic activity in Russia, according to Ludmila Rzhanskaya of the Gorkii Institute of World Literature in Moscow. Many research institutes have closed in the past five or...
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Scots do not know dentistry drill
Many people in deprived areas distrust dentists and are deterred from buying toothpaste and toothbrushes because of the cost, according to an Edinburgh University survey. The report from Edinburgh's...
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Dining cements dynasties
The increasing tendency to eat out is not undermining family meals - families are eating out together. Alan Warde, reader in sociology at Lancaster University, has been investigating the eating...
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Schizoid strings attached
Schizophrenia may develop earlier and earlier as it passes down the generations. The discovery is yet another consequence of the discovery several years ago of a significant type of genetic defect -...
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Trailblazer's rural revival
It has become almost the Elizabeth Esteve-Coll hallmark - some sort of rumpus in the first few weeks of a new job. In the late 1980s, as the new director of the Victoria and Albert museum, she caused...
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'Ageing' centre rejected
The great and good of the world of ageing research have rejected calls for a national research centre in gerontology. At a meeting at the Royal Society of Medicine last month, 60 senior people...
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Sussex listed for Schindler grant
American film director Steven Spielberg has pledged $100,000 of the profits from his epic Holocaust movie Schindler's List to a new centre of German-Jewish studies at Sussex University. Spielberg...
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Graduates penalised by public sector
An MP has claimed that graduates are facing discrimination for public sector jobs in Northern Ireland. Robert McCartney, independent MP for North Down, said parents should think twice about sending...
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Freeze damages student halls
The record sub-zero temperatures which made Glasgow colder than Moscow have disrupted the start of term for hundreds of students and caused thousands of pounds worth of damage. Round the clock work...