Fluctuating exchange rates complicate comparisons between minimum wage levels across Europe. Broadly speaking, the Pounds 4 per hour proposed by the Transport and General Workers Union in Britain...
Margaret of Mar thinks she has organophosphate poisoning. And she believes she is not the only one to be contaminated. Julia Hinde reports When not tending vegetables or making cheese on her...
How well has British industry exploited the many inventions made by UK universities and research institutes? Not well enough, Graham Spinardi finds The United Kingdom's record is pretty poor when it...
The high potential strength of carbon fibre was first realised in 1963 in a process developed at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough. The process was patented by the Ministry of Defence...
Jared Diamond asks why the sex life of humans differs so substantially from that of even our nearest relations in the animal world  Sex preoccupies us. It is the source of our most intense pleasures...
The day began with Sir Ron Dearing posing in a haze of flash photography behind a pile of stout, green, multi-volumed reports. By early evening he had been upstaged. The real star was far younger and...
Marketing departments are being pressed to take adverts in university directories. Phil Baty reports University marketing heads are calling for a clampdown on publishers of reference directories....
Exeter University has revised plans to axe up to 120 staff jobs. Its "restructuring" plan has been rewritten by its academic policy committee, following criticism by senate members. Lecturers' union...
Exeter University's bid for Pounds 33 million from the Millennium Commission to help cover the cost a new campus in Cornwall has been turned down.
A rescue package to save the Royal Greenwich Observatory is being prepared by staff a fortnight after closure plans were announced. The package could mean the 300-year-old RGO stays at its Cambridge...
Huw Richards assesses the members of the new education and science parliamentary committees The science and technology committee can claim to be the best-qualified group in the entire House. Of its...
(Photograph) - Northern pointes: 21-year-old Amanda Weaver, a third-year student at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds, gave her farewell performance, 'Always the same gesture',...
Sir Gareth Roberts, the man behind the Dearing report, reflects on two tumultuous years as CVCP chairman to Huw Richards WAITING for Dearing may be this week's universal fate, but Gareth Roberts...
Huw Richards assesses the members of the new education and science parliamentary committees Labour's vast 1997 parliamentary intake, with more than 200 new members among the 418 elected on May 1,...
(Photograph) - Firing line: Nicaraguan students aim home-made mortars during violent demonstrations over cuts in university funding and higher fees. Trouble erupted once more despite efforts to...