Lifelong mantra for Shephard review
Next month, Department for Education and Higher Education Funding Council officials will meet in Oxford to consider conclusions on the first stage of the Government's higher education review. They...
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Increase in attacks on Jews
Several disturbing trends in racially motivated attacks against Jews, in many countries, are highlighted in the 1994 report of Tel Aviv University Anti-Semitism Study Project. The report indicates a...
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Budget sweetener welcomed
An extraordinary outbreak of unanimity between Australia's academics and vice chancellors greeted the federal government's announcement last week that it had allocated Aus$16.5 billion (Pounds 7.9...
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Foreign student growth slows
Australia is facing a sharp decline in the growth of its education export industry as universities compete for fee-paying students in the developing countries, writes Geoff Maslen. According to the...
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Glittering reputations do not impress students
The unequal status of research and teaching in some top research universities is the subject of a high-powered commission of scholars and scientists in the United States. Chaired by Ernest L. Boyer,...
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Coriander contains 'green' nylon clue
Scientists searching for an environmentally-friendly way of producing nylon may have found the answer in the coriander plant. Nylon is made by reacting benzene with nitric acid and, as the textile is...
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Durable paint mimics nature
Britain's multi-million pound paint industry is facing a dilemma over the environmental impact of its products. Solvent-based paints that have proved popular because of their hardy qualities emit...
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Arthritis discovery
The use of steroids could benefit thousands of arthritis sufferers, according to the results of an Pounds 85,000 research and clinical trial programme at Bristol University. In the 1950s, high doses...
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Vorsprung durch Technik in Wales
Some Welsh factories are shrugging off their traditional role as assembly operations for multinational corporations by becoming innovators in their own right. Kevin Morgan, professor of city and...
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Exploiting glamour of the tracks
The break up of the railways into separate companies could damage a bedrock of public support that grew because of their glamour as a huge interacting system, a historian of science has told a Royal...
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Quangos take note of Nolan's findings
Tony Tysome on the sleaze committee's implications for higher education. Of all the issues brought to the attention of the Nolan committee as it prepared its first report on Standards in Public Life...
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Pilot helmets give surgeons new image
Surgeons of the future will wear fighter pilot-style helmets so that they can view both a patient and their radiological image at the same time, a leading radiologist has predicted. The image will be...
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Mersey firms asked for jobs
Liverpool University has opened a Pounds 2 million graduate employment unit using Pounds 770,000 funding from the European Commission on urban regeneration and the rest from private companies and...
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Japan joins search for grail
Japan is to put 5 billion yen (Pounds 37 million) into CERN's large hadron collider project. The LHC is a particle accelerator which will search for the Higgs boson - the holy grail of particle...
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Tussle over vouchers
The second White Paper on competitiveness is expected to reveal Government thinking on a voucher system for post-16 education. There is a Whitehall tussle between the Departments for Education and...