15-year plan will focus on older people
The government this week began drawing up arrangements for the launch of the second Foresight programme - aimed at encouraging industry, government and academics to identify research needs and market...
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Hungry creatures
When food is plentiful, the number of creatures who feed on it rises. But so does the number of creatures who feed on them, increasing the length of the food chain, ecologists have found. Researchers...
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Bladder relief
A computer program that can predict who will survive a stroke is being used to identify the causes of incontinence. Information on pressures in the bladder and flow rates will be fed into a computer...
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Suicide cells' role in the explosion of over-65s
Cells lining our digestive system are more likely to commit suicide the older we get, according to researchers at the University of Manchester and the Paterson Institute. "These stem cells live on a...
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Good job hunting
Graduates do not find jobs so hard to come by as they once did, but they still need pointers, reports Olga Wojtas Despite growing fears of a new recession, there is as yet little sign of graduate...
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Free-speech champion may be sent to library
Free-speech champion Suzi Clark has lost her internal appeal against redeployment at the University of Middlesex. Ms Clark, the university's head of media relations, has in essence been gagged. She...
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The business of criticising the critics
Criticising those of his staff who dare to raise complaints against him appears to be a speciality of Hugh Jenkins, dean of the Anglia Polytechnic University business school. Last week Whistleblowers...
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Don's Diary
Wednesday Home in London at 12.30am. Two down, two to go. Reaching half-time of the party political conference marathon is semi-bliss. Last night's joint higher education unions fringe meeting at the...
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Paul Langford
Cultural life has begun anew for the man charged with redefining the way money is given to arts and humanities. Paul Langford, chair of the new Arts and Humanities Research Board, which starts up...
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The THES diary
Next stop: bomb shelter For most people, the prospect of a delay in the completion of the Jubilee Line will come as no great surprise. But what is really intriguing is the part the Houses of...
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On the move
Pamela Lomax, professor of educational research at Kingston University, has been elected president of the British Educational Research Association. Peter Mortimore, director of the Institute of...
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Glittering prizes
Merryn Hutchings, reader in education at the University of North London, has received the British Educational Research Association Dissertation Award for her PhD thesis, Children's Constructions of...
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Please sir, why should anyone want to teach?
Widening access to higher education is not the only goal of higher education (see letters opposite), but it is a good one for a government concerned with economic performance and social cohesion....
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Nine hours to live in Eden
Mike Sharples experiences the intellectual thrill and moral challenge of cyberbiology Creatures 2. Mindscape, Pounds 39.95. (online store: www. mindscape.com) +1 800 716 8503. Windows 95/98. On just...
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Agony Aunt
"I am about to start my first lecturing job and wonder if I need a Follet-style makeover. Money is tight but I want to look professional for students and also approachable. Any tips?" A lecturer....