School's in for longer
Scottish pupils are achieving better qualifications, with almost half of the 1993 school-leavers staying in full time education, according to Raymond Robertson, Scottish Office minister for education...
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Enrol, turn off, drop out
Universities and schools are investing time and money to encourage pupils to apply to higher education. Yet, those pupils who find themselves in academic difficulties are complaining that the support...
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Guardian of OU ethos
A chance meeting with Michael Young, founder of the Open University, at the University of Botswana's extra-mural department in 1975 sealed the fate of Mary Thorpe, who is the new and first female...
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Learned plugging of Whitehall gaps
Yes, Minister! and Alan Clark's Diaries may give the impression that the workings of British government are widely understood, but in fact the field is one of the black holes of academic knowledge....
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Elementary, my dear Bayesian
A mathematical technique first developed in Britain in the early 1760s is now a hot favourite in helping forensic scientists tackle the shortcomings in their work. Called "Bayesian inference" after...
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Cleanliness gets closer to costliness
A detailed study of household hygiene habits has led economists from Leicester University to predict that domestic water use in south and eastern England will rise by an average 40 per cent over the...
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Ex-director admits lack of skill
A key player in the Government's heavily criticised privatisation of the Skills Training Agency in 1990 has now admitted that the move was a failure. At the time of its sell-off, STA boasted a...
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Water meters 'are kneejerk reaction'
Water companies should have to pay for the water they take, says a Middlesex University academic. And they should install water-saving devices free of charge in their customers' homes. This would...
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Sculptured form
(Photograph) - Sculptured form: Yuko Tabata from Japan at the summer school of Slade School of Fine Art, part of the University College, London
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New blood bank
Another sorry tale of commercial values dominating our National Health Service emerged from a report on nursing students published last week. Far from expecting a permanent NHS post on qualifying,...
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Carried away
Full marks to Alan Mills of Leicester University, who does not let being an academic stand in the way of his creativity. His latest idea is a city-wide network of travelators to trundle people around...
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Get a grip
And now, a story with a happy ending. A new Strathclyde University graduate, about to be photographed after the ceremony by her proud parents, gave her handbag to her brother. The brother, refusing...
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Nuclear family
Congratulations to a bunch of particle physicists from 34 institutes who published a major paper on quarks and have now managed to amass one citation for every institution, according to Science Watch...
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Count on it
Inefficient administration can have its benefits. Overheard recently on one South African university campus was the following exchange: "Aren't you worried about compulsory redundancies, given the...
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Wait for it
Those pointed jokes about McDonalds' employees who get their posts through clearing are applicable outside Britain as well. Canadian news magazine Maclean's reports that the entire counter staff of...