Medicine takes fast track
A REVOLUTION in British medical education could be just around the corner as plans to introduce three and four-year accelerated medical degrees go ahead. The Medical Workforce Standing Advisory...
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Watchdog will have healthy teeth
THE government's proposed Food Standards Agency is likely to be given a major role in nutrition, including responsibility for monitoring the nutritional content of food and defining a healthy diet....
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Fears grow over rising mercury levels in fish
Research into seabird feathers has revealed that mercury pollution is increasing most quickly in deep-sea food chains, raising concerns about using deep-sea fish stocks for human food. Bob Furness of...
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Public weighs up murder on scales of justice
MERCY killings are seen as less serious than murders of self-defence, and a burglar who kills a woman in panic is viewed more harshly than someone who murders a battering spouse, according to a...
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Study probes how technology invades privacy
A STUDY into the way technology at work can affect privacy has received Pounds 166,000 from the Economic and Social Research Council. David Mason, professor of sociology at the University of Plymouth...
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Mathematical models developed at Brunel University
* Mathematical models developed at Brunel University are paving the way for the development of roads that absorb noise pollution from traffic, writes Alan Thomson . Simon Chandler-Wilde and his team...
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Pompidou plan for Muscovites
A Pounds 6 MILLION plan to refurbish and extend Moscow's library of foreign literature to create an international education and cultural centre reflects an increasing awareness in Russia of the...
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Network needed to spread Commonwealth word
COMMONWEALTH An attempt to breathe new life into the idea of an Association for Commonwealth Studies is to be made during the heads of government meeting. An association to act as a network for...
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Joint attack on disease
ISRAELI scientists from the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School and their colleagues from a Palestinian university in east Jerusalem are planning joint research on a parasite that causes a skin...
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Turkey in row over Islam ban
A DECISION by Turkey's university authority to withdraw recognition of degrees awarded by the world-famous Al Hazar University in Egypt has provoked a diplomatic storm with allegations of an anti-...
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Salary rise tied to commitment statement
MORE THAN 6,500 Greek academics will receive pay increases of up to 35 per cent from the new year if a bill belatedly submitted to parliament by education secretary Gerasimos Arsenis becomes law as...
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Hungarian students are excluded
TWO first-year students from Slovakia's ethnic Hungarian minority have been excluded from a vocational training college in Dunajska Streda because - according to the head of the college - they could...
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Time for Oxbridge to think again
PERHAPS the biggest faux pas I have ever made, and there have been some whoppers, was towelcome the new students to Cambridge with a rant against the inequities of the parental contribution grants...
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Indian police chief leads scholar force
COMMONWEALTH A POLICE superintendent who doubles as a television quiz master and an advertising manager who is also a leading classical dancer are among the first Chevening Gurukul scholars who...
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Small states get security conscious
COMMONWEALTH Well over half the Commonwealth's 52 countries have populations of less than 1.5 million and are defined as small states. A concern for Commonwealth leaders over the decades has been the...