MEPs oppose genetic patenting directive
Opposition is growing to a European directive that would allow biotechnology companies to patent genetic material. MEPs maintain there should be an ethical dimension to the issue, which will be put...
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Collective failure of the imagination
Martin Gandoff and Martin Hulse argue that universities are not equipping students with an understanding of how the IT revolution is transforming business and their futures We are not educating our...
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Only connect and Life becomes complete
LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE. Metatools. Distributed in the United Kingdom by Principal +44 181 813 5656. Pounds ????+VAT ISBN ??????????? Macintosh/Windows dual platform CD with Internet access? The title...
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Research council for arts
The Dearing committee is set to recommend the creation of an Arts and Humanities Research Council. This is a favoured option in the committee's report following pressure to give research in the arts...
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Hands off our dual support
Britain's smaller research universities have delivered a pre-emptive strike against a fundamental review of research funding. Just two weeks before the Dearing committee publishes the results of its...
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Pot of gold for regions
SIR Ron Dearing may recommend top-slicing higher and further education budgets as part of his blueprint for regional collaboration. He is said to have taken a keen interest in a report produced by...
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Maths degrees alter content equation
MATHEMATICS degrees have broadened over the past few years and are now less focused on catering for the elite, a new study reveals, writes Julia Hinde. Peter Kahn of Liverpool Hope University College...
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Horror lurks in heaven
THE POTENTIAL cost to earth and civilisation from collision with asteroids is at least ten times greater than the hazard presented by the nuclear industry, scientists claim. This week they will tell...
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Mighty mice: Mini robotic mice
(Photograph) - Mighty mice: Mini robotic mice revved up and took centre stage last weekend for the 1997 World Micromouse Championships at Loughborough University. Organised by the Institution of...
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European space chief eyes Mars
THE EUROPEAN Space Agency's new director, Antonio Rodota, has promised cheaper, faster European space missions will soon follow Nasa's Mars mission success. In the week when Nasa's search for life on...
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Nolan extends sleaze detection to colleges
NEW measures to root out sleaze and corruption in universities and colleges are being considered by the Nolan committee on standards in public life. If approved, all those associated with...
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Royal opening for Surrey's new Pounds 6.6m centre
HRH The Duke of Kent this week opened the University of Surrey's new Pounds 6.6 million high-tech teaching and resources building. The Austin Pearce centre will house the school of language and...
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Management consultant takes over as v-c at UEA
The UNIVERSITY of East Anglia has appointed a management consultant as its new vice chancellor. In October, Vincent Watts, 56, senior partner at the $3.5-billion turnover Andersen Consulting, will...
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Gunnell to chair backbench education group
Former academic John Gunnell has been elected as chair of Labour's backbench education and employment committee. Mr Gunnell, 63, MP for Morley and Rothwell, lectured at the centre for studies in...
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Humanities graduates do well in job stakes
ARTS and humanities graduates do just as well in the jobs market as graduates of more vocational courses, researchers have found. Humanities Graduates and the World of Work, a survey of employers, by...