Italian lava's deep secret
Etna and the other live volcanoes of Italy have been studied for a long time. Now scientists are finding out about their undersea neighbours and submerging equipment in the deep sea to study their...

Etna and the other live volcanoes of Italy have been studied for a long time. Now scientists are finding out about their undersea neighbours and submerging equipment in the deep sea to study their...

Mandy Garner enjoys a game of bingo in a Kent lecture theatre as a teaser to learning about working-men's club comedy Stand-up comedians have arrived. Just a few years ago, they were deeply uncool;...
Universities should pay six times more for their copyright licences than they do, according to the Copyright Licensing Authority. In response to accusations of overcharging from the Committee of Vice...
The Quality Assurance Agency has been forced to take its blueprint for a national qualifications framework back to the drawing board after overwhelming protests. A chorus of disapproval has persuaded...
Poor career guidance and isolation are issues for many women working in science, technology and engineering. Mixed-sex mentoring may be a solution, as Sharon Ann Holgate finds out. "It was a...
Howard G. Allen Emeritus professor of structural engineering University of Southampton A : Students want to perform well but worry about what is expected of them. Most welcome useful advice. But for...
WHAT : Tutors often find it an uphill struggle to get students to open up in group debate about their studies and ideas WHY : Kate Exley argues that getting students to help set the ground rules can...
Teaching and research are the perfect pair, not foes, Stephen Rowland insists. The argument for a divorce between teaching and research comes in various forms, but its logic boils down to this: some...
Real Science
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is by an author who snooped around the seedy streets of criminal Chicago: " The Treloar Building was, and is,...
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