Worm watch
(Photograph) - School children across Wales are taking part in a hands-on Cardiff University research project. Each child is given a worm-watch kit to help them identify the 15 or so different...
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ESA asks for Mars, but not moon
Europe's science ministers meet in Brussels next week to decide the future of the continent's space programme. Issues under discussion include the planned Mars Express mission and the United Kingdom'...
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Scotland in lead with UK credit plans
Scotland is leading the United Kingdom with its blueprint for a national framework covering all qualifications, from those for people with learning difficulties to postgraduate degrees. The Scottish...
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Bangor exploits cell spotter
Engineers at University of Wales, Bangor, have joined forces with a new biomedical company in the United States to exploit an electronic method for rapidly detecting cancer cells. Developed by a team...
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Biologists get drawn to web
The National Institute of Health is proposing to launch a radical scheme for publishing biology research papers on the web. The NIH is consulting the scientific community on the proposal, which has...
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Modern explorers chart demise of the 'lone hero'
Ask people to describe the study of geography and most will mention fieldwork. But there has been surprisingly little analysis of what fieldwork is and how it developed. "We often write about the...
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Women in province seize the day
Women students from across Northern Ireland have been debating their role in the province's future development at the National Union of Students-Union of Students in Ireland women's annual conference...
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In the news
When Rodney Bickerstaffe was elected general secretary of Britain's biggest union, Unison, in November 1995, he turned down a Pounds 9,000 pay rise. "What you don't have, you don't miss," he said at...
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Paris
A bill to set up a Franco-German university has been backed by the French national assembly's foreign affairs committee. The bill will be presented to the full assembly next week, but several...
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Fielding ideas
(Photograph) - Perdita Phillips, artist in residence at Royal Holloway's department of geography, has created an exhibition inspired by geography fieldwork. Ms Phillips trained as an environmental...
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Fraud squad at Bilston
The fraud squad have been called into crisis-hit Bilston Community College following suspected financial irregularities. West Midlands' Police this week confirmed: "We have been asked by the Further...
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Home is where the Foyer is
The Foyer Foundation holds its annual conference next week. Harriet Swain looks at how foyers are helping Britain's poorest young people get into college Government funding of further and higher...
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The THES Diary
Off the cuff With the present flurry of higher education initiatives, it was an easy mistake to make. The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals (CVCP), organiser of last week's conference on...
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Glittering prizes
The Open University will award honorary degrees tomorrow to database specialist and lecturer Hugh Darwen (MUniv); education reformer John Tomlinson (DUniv); Alistair Graham, chief executive at Leeds...
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On the move
David Mingos, 54, Sir Edward Frankland BP professor of chemistry and dean of the Royal College of Science at Imperial College, London, has been elected principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He has...