The latest in silicon implants
Kevin Warwick is experimenting with new relationships between man and machines. Harriet Swain visited the man with a chip in his arm You never know," says Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at...
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Helping Julie stand on her feet
Julie Hill is paralysed from the waist down. Yet with the aid of researchers from University College London she is cycling with her family again. Tim Perkins describes the work Eight years ago Julie...
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Confusion and medical ethics
Is it really ethical to ask an Alzheimer's sufferer to take part in scientific research? asks Alison Goddard Five years ago David Edmonds realised that his father, Ronald, was suffering from...
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A fresh look at the wonders of Marvell
Who will shine in 1999? In the first of a series, Harriet Swain meets the English academics' English academic Old battles over literary theory are passe. Today's issues exercising the minds of...
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Cult of the indie visual
Andrew Davies created a cult university satire and adapted Vanity Fair for the BBC. He talks to John Davies about his transition from academic to screen writer Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, Moll...
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Higher channels
John Davies, the thinking person's previewer, scans the schedules for you. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Fifty years ago, on December 10, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights...
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French row over race poll
A row has erupted in France over the 1999 national census plans to include a sample survey on the ethnic origin of respondents. The National Statistics and Economic Studies Institute, which organises...
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Laser attack
A lecturer at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology could have sustained permanent eye damage after a student used a laser pointer during a lecture. The university said...
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Guide by telephone
The website (www.ncwe.com) for the National Centre for Work Experience is not up and running. Any readers wanting its booklet on what employers expect students to learn from work experience should...
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Pay is a big put-off
Nurses are not carrying on Pay is at the top of the nursing agenda, and the annual Review Body, chaired by former Oxford Brookes University vice-chancellor Clive Booth, is taking evidence. The Royal...
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Star Turn
Phil Baty joins a driving instructor and decorator on an access course to teaching Like the group of adult learners she is taking today for an access to higher education seminar, Helen Deane, 37, has...
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Are modern 'angels' prepared for the wards?
Nurses are not carrying on The United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting is investing Pounds 500,000 in its education review, which could, with government approval,...
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Attrition War
Nurses are not carrying on The United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting's review will investigate attrition rates from university nursing courses - a critical issue...
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Edinburgh students set to vote on joining NUSS
* At its annual general meeting last night, the Edinburgh University students' association was set to vote on whether to hold a referendum on joining the National Union of Students Scotland.
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FE:more cash for more students
An extra Pounds 584 million will be pumped into further education in 2000-2001, but colleges will be expected to take an extra 200,000 students. Announcing the comprehensive spending review...