Temporary plight of solo mums
Women of Afro-Caribbean origins are four times as likely as white women to have children out of wedlock, researchers claim. A three-year study by researchers at the Policy Studies Institute in London...
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Light on arthritis
RESEARCHERS have made a breakthrough in the battle against Rheumatoid Arthritis. Brian Stutton at King's College London's Randall Institute and Michael Taussig of the Babraham Institute in Cambridge...
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Baby bio
EDINBURGH scientists are aiming to produce a stage-by-stage, chronological listing of the tissues present in the first eight weeks of the development of the human embryo. The university's...
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Double first in love affairs
The better educated you are, the more likely you are to have an affair, new research on sexual attitudes has found. Men and women with degrees and A levels are almost twice as likely to have an...
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Worthless without that piece of paper at the end
Adult learning is not valued unless it leads to a formal qualification. Findings from a study of adult education and its impact on employment show that women and those from poorer backgrounds...
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Canadians club together
Canada's most populous province has set up a half-billion dollar endowment that may help offset recent tuition fee increases. The Ontario government plans to match the Can$250 million (Pounds 110...
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Take one sink, some citric acid and create a scientist
John Nicholson's new science course at the University of East Anglia is down to earth. Its modest requirements are a sink, electricity and some tables easily furnished by most village halls. Ideally...
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National training plans to be reviewed
Plans for a teacher training national curriculum are under review by the new Government, education secretary David Blunkett said this week. The Teacher Training Agency's highly criticised core...
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First-class war with a phobia
The last eight essays Kevin Reah wrote in his final year at the Open University were outstanding by anybody's reckoning, five receiving marks of 95 per cent and the remaining three 100 per cent,...
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Research riles Irish director
A LECTURER has been disciplined over research he conducted into reading and writing difficulties of some of his students. Patrick Greer suggested that the textbooks were too difficult for average...
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Happiness is a biscuit bar
Few scientists have the satisfaction of reaching the peak of academic excellence and then putting the product they worked on in the laboratory on the market, but Mexican microbiologist Alfredo...
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Indians consider code for standards
INDIA's University Grants Commission is studying a proposal for a model code of governance for universities following complaints of increasing political interference in their affairs and a fall in...
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Indian students protest over student leaders death
* Late last month, as the campaign for the arrest of the "killers" of the radical student leader Chandrashekhar Prasad spread (THES, April 25), nearly 10,000 university students from across India...
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Time at a premium
"Permanent academics still have a large degree of freedom in choosing how to devote their time" (THES, May 2). Surely there is one obvious counterblast to Vincenzo Raimo's "Golden age of the don is...
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Japanese venture into business partnerships with industry
Hokkaido University in north Japan is to establish a business investment fund to attract capital for manufacturing and marketing the products being developed at the university's research laboratories...