Growth threatens global standards
More with less - THES reporters describe efforts around the world to meet the rising demand for trained medical staff without compromising quality Continuing growth in demand for doctors has created...
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Greeks prefer to stay home
More with less - THES reporters describe efforts around the world to meet the rising demand for trained medical staff without compromising quality The boom in Greek health services has seen the...
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Crises dog US health system
More with less - THES reporters describe efforts around the world to meet the rising demand for trained medical staff without compromising quality The American medical system is lurching towards yet...
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Botswana to set up own medical school
More with less - THES reporters describe efforts around the world to meet the rising demand for trained medical staff without compromising quality The small African state of Botswana, which in the...
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'The long-held limit of 12 authors on papers existed to prevent articles ending like Hollywood blockbusters...
...where everyone gets a name check' Most areas of research are now team efforts, and the list of names attached to papers gives journals a real headache At Harwell, the British nuclear physics...
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Why I ...I think degrees could be completed in just one year
Our university system remains medieval; our teaching practices at best belong to the 19th century. Years of modularisation and semesterisation, e-learning and best practice have not changed what must...
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Dead good little urner
Coffins and urns adorned with the insignia of American universities and colleges are being used to raise cash for institutions. The items are being sold by Collegiate Memorials, "a family-owned...
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Pippin heck
A former chief scientific adviser to the government, Lord May of Oxford, has hit on a novel idea for making genetically modified foods acceptable to the public. Speaking in his role as president of...
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Get busy restoring trust fund
Scientists must be more robust and less defensive to counter public suspicion, argues Derek Burke Once upon a time, scientists thought that all we had to do was to decide whether a novel food or...
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Morris too minor for wall?
The conference room at the Department for Education and Skills that hosts press briefings has an array of photographs of former education secretaries lining the walls. Heavy-hitting politicians...
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Don's Diary: Extreme archaeology
July: Oxford It's that time of year again. The usual eve-of-battle doubts - three months of archaeological excavation about to begin. Will we survive? Early tomorrow we leave for Brittany. Brittany 8...
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Debt fears deter entry
At least one in four qualified but disadvantaged students doubt that they will go to university because of debt, according to a Universities UK survey released today. This is the first clear evidence...
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Inventors' shop is no wind-up
Student entrepreneurs at Oxford University are hoping to give inventor Trevor Baylis his first success in the quest to establish an inventors' shop in major university towns. "I am working with a...
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Ex-polys losers in research cull
Up to half the former polytechnics may be effectively stripped of their research role under proposals in the government's strategy document due next month. Education secretary Charles Clarke is...
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Appointments
Cranfield School of Management has appointed Michael Osbaldeston as its director from next January. Professor Osbaldeston has been head of global learning at Shell International. He is also director...