UCL in the media
'Adolf Hitler killed 100,000 Jews': new study reveals pupils' lack of Holocaust knowledge
A new survey carried out by the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education has found that one in 10 secondary pupils believes that no more than 100,000 people were killed during the Holocaust.
Read: TES, More: Jewish Chronicle, Jewish News, SecEd, UCL News, Listen: BBC Radio Manchester 'Mike Shaft' (from 1 hour 1 min)Ice Age engravings found at Jersey archaeological site
Dr Ed Blinkhorn and Dr Matt Pope (both UCL Archaeology), who are part of the Ice Age Island project in Jersey, discuss the project's latest archaeological findings, including stone pieces criss-crossed by carved lines that pre-date the earliest known art in the UK.
Read: BBC News, Listen: BBC Radio Guernsey 'The Islands at One' (from 13 mins 53 secs), More: BBC Radio Jersey 'Cameron Ward' (from 1 hour 11 mins)Picky pigs take washing certain foods seriously
A study by UCL and Basel Zoo, including Professor Volker Sommer (UCL Anthropology), has found that some pigs clean their food before eating it and can delay gratification by washing their food, rather than eating it immediately.
Read: National Geographic, More: Daily Mail, BBC NewsTusks to be dusted for poachers' prints
A team of researchers from UCL and King's College London have developed a technique to retrieve fingerprints from elephant tusks, which could transform police investigations against poachers and smugglers around the world.
Read: Times (£), More: Independent, Financial Times, The Australian (£)I am having a DNA test to see if my ancestors are black
Commenting on the use of genetic tests for ancestry, Professor Steve Jones (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment) says: "On a long trudge through history - two parents, four great-grandparents, and so on - very soon everyone runs out of ancestors and has to share them".
Read: Daily Mail, Listen: BBC World Service 'Newsday' (from 19 mins 57 secs)If you want young people to vote, give them the handbook
Jeremy Hayward (UCL Institute of Education) comments on the fall of students studying citizenship at GCSE level.
Read: GuardianThree reasons why the Teaching Excellence Framework won't work
In an opinion piece, Professor Peter Scott (UCL Institute of Education) says the government's new TEF uses a cocktail of unhelpful metrics that will only favour 'top' universities and allow them to accumulate more in fees.
Read: GuardianFetl symposium looks to the future of FE and skills
Speaking at a FETL symposium, Professor Chris Husbands (UCL Institute of Education) said the government's area devolution plans were "really important and really interesting".
Read: FE WeekThe Empire of Mali
Professor Kevin Macdonald (UCL Archaeology) joins a panel discussion on the Empire of Mali, which flourished from 1200 and was the largest empire in west Africa for almost 400 years.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'In Our Time' (from 5 mins 50 secs)National infrastructure commission
Professor Brian Collins (UCL STEaPP) comments on the launch of George Osbourne's National Infrastructure Commission.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Today' (from 53 mins 52 secs)