Unleashing plant power
John Wilkinson, who is working to meld modern science and herbal medicine, may have found a plant treatment for Aids. Ayala Ochert continues a series of profiles of young researchers John Wilkinson...
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'It's like a meat market, but I would do anything if they give me a job'
In a cavernous hall in the basement of the Toronto Sheraton Centre, a scene unfolds that has shades of some nightmarish future world in its terrifying anonymity. It is the interview room for the job...
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The marketplace of ideas, paradigms and parables
Michael Berube patrols the halls of Toronto's hotels boasting an electric-blue suit, a shock of black hair, and a high-voltage energy. Berube, of the University of Illinois, made his name with Life...
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Animals and the merciful release
A. R. Michell believes that animal owners and vets today are prolonging the lives of some pets unnecessarily It may still be unacceptable to practise euthanasia - gently inducing death to avoid...
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Absolutely confabulous
At the Modern Language Association's annual conference, 9,000 literary scholars gathered to debate papers whose titles guarantee media ridicule while graduates chased that elusive first job. Tim...
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Fact file:In brief
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/1996 reveal that: Of overseas domiciled students at UK higher education institutions: * 48.4 per cent are European * 30.2 per cent are Asian...
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End game
(Photograph) - End game: For the second year running Leeds University's Rugby League XIII went further down the road to Wembley than any other student team. But dreams of playing in next May's...
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Grants
Cambridge University Development Office in the United States The William H. Gates Foundation has made a grant of $20 million for the design and construction of a new computer laboratory. University...
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Oxford to learn from Cambridge
A REPORT into the future of Oxford University is expected to suggest radical changes that would make it run more like Cambridge. Peter North's long-awaited paper is likely to recommend a more...
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Portrait of the artist as an academic
Are you a regular drinker, a smoker, a pet owner, and a loyal member of the Labour party? If so, you are probably an artist or a philosopher. Or do you dislike cigarettes, love your job, enjoy nights...
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Drugs expert under fire
CONTROVERSIAL drugs researcher Martin Plant, whose Pounds 120,000 grant has been suspended by the Scottish Office, narrowly avoided an Edinburgh University disciplinary hearing because his contract...
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Film collection goes to Warwick
A RETIRED German film critic has sold a collection of film memorabilia from pre-war Germany to the University of Warwick in a gesture of regret for second world war bombing raids on Coventry. Henning...
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Tribunal upholds Dundee sacking
A Dundee University lecturer who directed a student field trip to the wrong site and then casually said "What's in a name?" was not dismissed unfairly, an industrial tribunal has ruled. The tribunal...
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Look back
(Photograph) - Look back: an illustrated film programme from Veit Harlan's 1940 anti-Semitic melodrama Jud Su' (above) is part of a rare collection of German cinema memorabilia acquired by the...
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Ethnic staff rates targeted
LECTURERS, vice chancellors and funding council officials are hiring researchers to find out why universities employ so few people from ethnic minorities as academic staff. Research planned for this...