Computers solve learning problems
A research centre has been set up at the University of Teesside to develop new ways of helping people with learning difficulties by using sophisticated computer technology. Researchers at the special...
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Women escape to work
The development of a burgeoning textile industry in Bangladesh is responsible for significant improvements in the status and health of many women, researchers at Southampton University have...
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Price worth paying for debt-free graduates
(Photograph) - Public opinion seems to favour students from well-off families paying some of their tuition costs. Details of this week's MORI poll appear below, with a survey of readers' views and a...
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Margin notes on the case for personal burden
(Photograph) - When MORI polled nearly 2,000 people for The É«ºÐÖ±²¥S in September 1993, 46 per cent favoured teaching costs being paid by the state and not repaid by students. This is about the same as...
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Devaluation of the British degree
(Photograph) - British academics do not believe that degree standards are being maintained, a survey of É«ºÐÖ±²¥S readers has shown. The self-selecting group of 1,125 people who returned last year's...
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Heriot-Watt sets up new language chair
Heriot-Watt University has marked the 25th anniversary of its pioneering language courses with the creation of a new chair in interpreting and translating. Ian Mason, holder of the chair and head of...
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Women medics face hard climb
Women aiming for a medical career are still meeting more barriers than their male peers, a nationwide survey has found. Data compiled in a study of medical students who qualified in 1986 has shown...
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Whispering silks
(Photograph) - Lecturers at Langside College, Glasgow, have been using national dress to help teach English to women at the Meridian Black and Ethnic Minority Women's Information and Resource Centre...
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Stirk gang
Sideswipe no 98 is Robert Burns' acid view of the Scottish universities, communicated in his Epistle to J. Lapraik (1785): "A set o'dull conceited hashes Confuse their brains in college classes; They...
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Surgery psychos
Health secretary Virginia Bottomley last week told psychiatrists that they would "be surprised how many people with psychotic symptoms come to see their MPs". Years ago she was pestered by a...
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Gaelic groupies
Move over, black, disabled lesbians -- or at least stand well back. Dundee University appears to have cornered the market in minorities with a sign in its foyer, "Ladies Gaelic Football Team''.
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Patently absurd
The wacky patent application competition 1994, held by Chemistry & Industry magazine, yields one UK winner who has proposed a waterproof bird-feeder. Trevor Rowston of Nottingham has designed...
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Spot the Ball
The arrival last autumn of one of academic life's more prominent football enthusiasts, Howard Newby, as vice chancellor of Southampton University, seems to be having an effect on the local soccer...
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Sexuality Slob
Bad news for romantics in the latest newsletter from Rotterdam's Erasmus University. The International Academy of Sex Research has a new president, the university's professor of the pathophysiology...
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Firms feel graduate pinch
A fifth of top companies have reported a serious recruitment shortfall in spite of the rising number of graduates leaving higher education, according to a new survey by the Association of Graduate...