Positive use of negative
It could be interpreted as another wheeze linked to the research assessment exercise, but The Diary is assured that a new publication, The Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine , has been...
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Plight of the navigator
A former lecturer in marine navigation has had to be rescued by a lifeboat after getting stuck on a sandbank. Yachtsman Peter Mitchell was stuck for seven hours upstream from Sunderland Yacht Club on...
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When size matters
Swiss scientists have worked out the average dimensions of a European nose. At the age of 30, the average European man's nose is 5.8cm long and sticks out 2.6cm from the face. For a woman of the same...
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For the Farterland
Nose picking, farting and belching in public are rife in the UK, according to a survey by London's Science Museum. More than a third of the 6,000 people surveyed said they picked their nose more than...
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Next week
News Crisis in science: can universities do more to woo students back to maths, physics and chemistry? Features BA Festival of Science: why Leicester's role in the space programme makes it the...
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Can they justify their £750m JIF awards?
THES staff assess the Joint Infrastructure Fund's impact. When the Joint Infrastructure Fund was unveiled by the Office of Science and Technology and the Wellcome Trust in July 1998, it sparked a...
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Findings: Branding on the brain
It seems the marketing gurus were right all along - the human brain has a special way of processing the brand names of products, writes Steve Farrar. In particular, those brand names that keep a...
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Parents who delay separation depress students
Unhappy couples who wait until their child has gone to university before splitting up may be contributing to growing depression among students. The annual student wellbeing conference hosted by...
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Blair 'clueless' on growth
The government has little idea how to reach its target of 50 per cent participation in higher education, how many extra staff this will require and how much it will cost, it emerged this week. The...
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College head to lead DFES unit
Jane Williams, principal of the City of Wolverhampton College, has been appointed director of teaching and learning at the Department for Education and Skills. She will lead a new unit that aims to...
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University recruitment rises by 3.9 per cent
The number of people who have accepted a university or college place for the coming year is up by 3.9 per cent, according to figures released this week by the Universities and Colleges Admissions...
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I'll make it simple
Learning is too hard. If we don't make it easier, intellectual evolution may stop, argues Michael Wood. I remember reading that, at some stage, only two people understood Einstein's theory of general...
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Pfizer to pay £500k for pharmacy school head
Pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer has pledged to pay £500,000 for an academic to head the new Medway School of Pharmacy. The school is part of a collaboration between the universities of Kent and...
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Mackney to stand for Natfhe secretary again
Paul Mackney, general secretary of lecturers' union Natfhe, has confirmed that he will stand for another five-year term of office, as the union this week opened the nominations for an election to the...
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You cannot make them think
All should have the option of university but only the really able should expect to collect a full degree, argues Hugh Fletcher. "Some of the students shouldn't be in higher education." So wrote...