Entente is not so cordial
A FLAGSHIP postgraduate student exchange between France and the United Kingdom has met with apparent lack of interest among British students. The Entente Cordiale scheme dates from the 1995 Franco-...
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Mars probe may hinder science
GROUND-BREAKING space projects planned by the European Space Agency could suffer if the agency also launches a mission to Mars, scientists claim. ESA, which faces a cut this year of about 3 per cent...
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Sir Ron looks to blue chips
A DOZEN top companies have been asked by Sir Ron Dearing to take part in a novel loan scheme to fund expensive university laboratory kit and maintenance. Sir Ron, whose inquiry into higher education...
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Malaysian PM appeals for cyber city partners
ACADEMICS are lagging behind business in taking up the opportunities offered by Malaysia's Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC). During his visit to the United Kingdom last month, Malaysia's prime...
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Two more choose smart card
Edinburgh and Nottingham universities are following the lead of Exeter and York in launching a smart card as a move to the cashless campus. The card, which uses the Mondex electronic payment system,...
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Watchdogs lose French court battle to ban English on Web site
Georgia Tech Lorraine, the European platform of the Georgia Institute of Technology, this week won a court case after two French watchdog bodies filed a suit alleging it had violated French law by...
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Trek through space to discover the wholly trinity
3-D photography is the Holy Grail for computer graphics researchers. Toby Howard assesses how far they have come and where they plan to go It is gratifying when undergraduates come to the front at...
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Now is the time for radical action
Skill shortages are here again. Employers are whingeing about lack of suitable staff. There is talk again of recruiting overseas. Salaries are going up faster than inflation. Poaching is back in...
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Overheads must be paid for
FUNDING councils, research councils, companies, charities: they all agree that research needs expensive equipment. They part company, however, on who should provide it. The urgency of this issue,...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a researcher into dark times: "'Beth Hamishpath' - the House of Justice: these words shouted by the...
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Grants
University of Birmingham Charities Dr W. Siebert, Pounds ,571 from Joseph Rowntree Foundation (company recruitment policies - implications for unskilled workers); Mr J. Visser, Pounds 45,167 from...
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Honorary degrees
University of Bristol DLit: Basil Davidson, veteran anti-apartheid campaigner, author and historian University of Aberdeen LLD: Marianne Bastid-Bruguiere, professor and director of research at the...
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Appointments
University of Glasgow Mungo Campbell (above) has been appointed deputy director of the Hunterian Art Gallery at the university. He is the former assistant keeper of prints and drawings at the...
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Tense, nervous headache? Take Stoics
Forget psychiatry andother modern approachesto relieving depression. Ancient Greek philosophy holds the key to a happy life, as Richard Sorabji explains to Lucy Hodges Overwhelmed by events? Help may...
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Chutzpah on the scales of justice
Alan Dershowitz defended Claus von Bulow and helped O. J. Simpson beat a murder rap. Here hetalks to Tim Cornwell about hislatest concern, the future of the Jewish race Today is Wednesday," Alan...