News in brief - 29 August 2013
ThailandOrigami for eyes to defeat cheatsStudents at a Thai university will not take any more exams while wearing paper blinkers on their heads. Lecturers in the Faculty of Agro-Industry at Kasetsart...
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News in brief - 29 August 2013
Technology strategy supportCetis consultancy relaunchedThe Centre for Educational Technology, Interoperability and Standards has been relaunched with a remit to widen its client base. Last year, the...
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Crick Institute to give 12-year core funding to early career scientists
Independence enables biomedical laboratory to offer stability and freedom to researchers
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色盒直播 Scholarly Web - 29 August 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Arthur C. Aufderheide, 1922-2013
A 鈥渕ummy doctor鈥 who combined a distinguished career as a pathologist with pioneering research on the diseases of the ancient world has died
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Appointments - 29 August 2103
Indiana University-Purdue University IndianapolisAnthony 鈥楢J鈥 Baucum IIAnthony 鈥淎J鈥 Baucum II, recently appointed assistant professor of biology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis,...
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Campus round-up - 29 August 2013
Source: PADry run for disasterA mock terror attack may furnish valuable insights into emergency service response. Academics from King鈥檚 College London monitored the emergency procedures deployed for...
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Strictly Gaia
I would like to thank John Gilbert (Letters, 15聽August) for his kind words about my book On Gaia (reviewed by Jon Turney, 8聽August). However, I would like to clarify that I do not make a 鈥渃ategory...
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Altruistic contributions
Tabulating the place of UK universities in terms of their contribution to industry (鈥淜orean kudos (UK also-rans)鈥, 15聽August) presents only a partial view of the external role of the university...
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Slow food for thought
Gary Thomas (鈥淗ave to admit it鈥檚 getting better, a little better all the time鈥, 15聽August), as befits a professor of education, believes that with reference to intelligence 鈥渙ur abilities are getting...
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Right combination
As much as I can see why many people would think that overturning the Oxbridge rule of combination would make the applications process 鈥渇airer鈥 (鈥淐ompetition questions over rule that restricts...
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No commodification
The article 鈥溾楶olitical experiment鈥 must not reduce education to a commodity鈥 (15聽August) informs us that 鈥渢he UK鈥檚 pool of higher education experts鈥as arguably taken a聽turn to the right鈥. It then...
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Profile-raising
The very useful perspectives reported in the feature 鈥淧utting women in the frame鈥 (22聽August) nonetheless require clarification on two points. First, although some external funding bodies have chosen...
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The point of NSS is points
It is hardly surprising that institutions use gaming strategies to try to bolster their scores on the National Student Survey (鈥淗old bad news about grades until after NSS鈥, 15聽August). This has been...
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UK still suffers trips of the tongues
Your editorial 鈥淎 timely look under the bonnet鈥 (22聽August) is right to draw attention to the issue of language degrees, but one of the figures was inaccurate. As of 23 August, the number of students...