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For nursing professor Kerry Reid-Searl, simulation is as good as the real thing in teaching students and improving patient care "I suit up and walk into the conference, get up on stage and start playing with the microphone. People in the audience are thinking: 'Who is this and what are we going...

Seven things to keep in mind before sending off your job application to an Asian university Do your research Collaborating with an overseas university first is a great way to get to know them if you are considering moving abroad. Paul Matsudaira started his career at Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

Ignore the festive fulmination. Marriage – like gods themselves – has only ever been a product of what humankind makes of it Another day, another anti-gay marriage statement from some Roman Catholic grandee. In the wake of his infelicitous midnight mass sermon in which the archbishop of Westminster accused...

Ballot of Public and Commercial Services union members at government's biggest department could see 80,000 walk out Tens of thousands of workers in the government's biggest department are voting on whether to strike in a dispute over jobs. Balloting of union members at the Department for Work...

Some 24.5 children in every 100,000 in Britain develop the condition, putting the UK behind Finland, Sweden, Saudi Arabia and Norway The UK has the fifth highest rate in the world of children with type 1 diabetes, which can lead to serious health problems such as blindness and strokes, new research shows...

Scotland is taking the lead in housing the homeless. If only Westminster did likewise The year has started, incredibly, with two pieces of good news to counteract an otherwise unending stream of grim revelations about Britain's housing crisis. First, the Scottish government has brought into force...

I write in response to David Blunkett's article ( Comment, 28 December) and to Eddie Dougall's letter ( 31 December ). When I was a child, my father, Hilary Marquand, used to invite members of the Labour cabinet (during the 1945 Labour government) to our house where they would discuss their hopes...

The lives of the world's poorest have been transformed by offering them access to loans to invest in their own livelihoods. The next step is to integrate such schemes into wider social programmes Having a bank account and credit card seems normal to many people, but for more than 2.5 billion people...