Paris, 17 Jul 2003 Microscopes are not the only tools available to study disease. A new ESA project employs satellites to predict and help combat epidemic outbreaks, as well as join the hunt for the...
Paris, 17 Jul 2003 A unique view of our home planet and its natural satellite -- the Moon - is one of the first data sets coming from ESA's Mars Express. "It is very good news for the mission," says...
A good clear-out at home and worry that the curriculum had lost touch with what it is to be a nurse spurred Keith Ward to search for the 'real stuff' of nursing. You know how it happens. You finally...
Pat Leon asks a winner of one of this year's national teaching fellowships how he manages. Name: Michael Manogue Age: 44 Job: Dean for learning and teaching, faculty of medicine, dentistry,...
The BBC television show University Challenge is going global. Victorious teams from Queen's University, Belfast, Aberystwyth University, Birkbeck College and Edinburgh University are being pitted...
The Natural Environment Research Council has launched a £1.2 million research programme on the effects of depleted uranium, with a focus on the environment. It will follow up Royal Society reports...
Orthogem, a young company developing synthetic bone-graft material that substantially lowers the infection risk to patients has won innovation funding to bring the idea to market. The technology is...
Furious lecturers' union leaders have accused vice-chancellors of seeking to engineer an industrial dispute so they can walk out of the national pay bargaining system. As Natfhe and the Association...
Two-thirds of university and college staff feel the Higher Education Funding Council for England is bureaucratic and a third feel it is inflexible and lacks transparency. The fourth Mori survey,...
Two Strathclyde University professors have put their money where their mouths are to fund a scholarship for a master of international management course being launched in autumn. Neil Hood (pictured...
Vulnerable research departments in universities should be supported by regional development agencies if they do not receive funding under the research assessment exercise, the House of Lords...
Graduates will have to work harder and be prepared to be more flexible if they are to find career jobs this year, employers have warned. A 3.4 per cent drop in graduate vacancies, coupled with...
Researchers are questioning whether the winds of change are blowing hard enough to meet the UK's energy needs, despite trade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt's commitment to wind power. Ms...
The science research councils should be dissolved and replaced with a national science foundation, leading science figures said this week. The Royal Society of Chemistry, whose chief executive writes...
How has the fall in the value of the stock market since The THES' first analysis of university wealth in 2001 affected the financial health of UK institutions? Claire Sanders and Alison Goddard...