Scientists' image 'too polarised '
A BRITISH psychologist will call next week for science to be "normalised, not demonised". Helen Haste, head of psychology at the University of Bath, will tell a conference to mark the British Society...
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Mandarin slams Scots' colonial status
Senior civil servants are notoriously circumspect, even after they retire. But on the eve of the devolution vote, James Scott, former secretary of the Scottish Office Education Department, has broken...
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A very useful subject - in theory
The THES continues its series on subjects at the top and bottom of the popularity stakes. History & Philosophy of Science Europe's only dedicated history and philosophy of science degree,...
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School threat to stable staple
The THES continues its series on subjects at the top and bottom of the popularity stakes. History, by its very nature, is chiefly concerned with the imponderables of the past, writes Huw Richards....
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Physical confidence
The THES continues its series on subjects at the top and bottom of the popularity stakes. Sports THE popularity of physical education and sports science degrees has increased enormously in recent...
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Hazard busters leap into action
A REINSURANCE group is sponsoring the first multidisciplinary hazard centre in Britain at University College London. The research into natural hazards, such as earthquakes, hurricanes and global...
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Bias binding
Soviet rhetoric about female equality concealed wage discrimination comparable to western capitalist economies, according to research by Katarina Katz of the University of Gotenberg, Sweden. Her...
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False identity
Plans to introduce photo credit cards to prevent fraud could have little impact, fear researchers at the Univesity of Westminster. Psychology researchers, keen to see whether the planned introduction...
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Worming their way in
worms may provide ideal biological indicators of the extent to which a farm can be considered truly organic, according to studies at Grassland and Environmental Research Institutes in Aberystwyth and...
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A speedy recovery
Commercial cultivation of shellfish may have less harmful long-term effects on mud-dwelling creatures than previously thought. Tests on the Solway by scientists at the Scottish Office Agriculture,...
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Pollution-free cars get green light
Hybrid electric vehicles will cut exhaust emissions and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, researchers heard at a recent Warwick University seminar. But such high performance pollution-free cars...
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Train lines kept safe from prying eyes
When ScotRail train drivers make confidential reports on safety problems to Strathclyde University researchers, they can be sure that that confidence is respected. The research findings are protected...
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Freight rides on the crest of a wave
The Government's proposals to ease congestion on roads come as major motorways are already carrying more vehicles than their designed capacity, and heavy goods traffic is forecast to rise by almost...
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Union calls for world boycott
CANADA's professor lobby has called for a worldwide boycott of a university due to open in 1999 in the Vancouver area. The Canadian Association of University Teachers is trying to ensure that job...
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Gaelic is alive and piping
IT IS an odd experience to be met at the gates of an academic institution by a piper but then Cape Breton's Gaelic College is no ordinary limb of further education. As to why a windswept rock off the...