Firms favour director dons
Non-executive directorships and paid sabbaticals are among a package of incentives companies could put together for university lecturers to help higher education produce the kinds of graduates...
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MRC rethinks research
The Medical Research Council is planning to rethink its clinical research in response to changes in research and development in the National Health Service. The MRC is re-evaluating its involvement...
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UCL fears growing state role
University College London has threatened to boycott higher education quality assurance proposals amid fears that they will boost state control at the expense of institutions' academic freedom. UCL...
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Scots tell Dearing 'no top-ups'
Scottish principals have come out strongly against top-up fees in their submission to the Dearing inquiry into higher education. But they warn that if the Government does not put a moratorium on...
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Students take to the airwaves
British student radio does not have a proud history compared with the United States. There stations are vibrant, professional operations, while here they are mostly low-budget, part-time outfits that...
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CV query man goes on leave
A Durham University college principal whose work permit application and Who's Who entry contained misleading information is to take leave of absence. Duane Arnold, principal of St Chad's college,...
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Day care 'does not harm children'
A right-wing think-tank that advised mothers to stay at home for the sake of their children's development ignored research showing that day care can have beneficial long-term effects, psychology...
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Egg racers and paint makers get SET
Instrument makers and circus performers are among 61 winners this week of Royal Society grants for activities during the 1997 National Week of Science, Engineering and Technology. In total Pounds 80,...
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Exiles' move to Britain was 'comfortable'
The 40th anniversary of the Hungarian rising finds some of the intellectuals who fled to Britain after the Soviet invasion still active in academic life. A recently completed study of their...
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Serpent is core of a religion
The Rainbow Serpent painted by Australian Aborigines could be the world's oldest religious icon, new research has revealed. A study in the Arnhem Land region of the Northern Territory found the...
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Depression deeper than we think
Half of all depression in patients visiting their family doctors goes undiagnosed, according to the early results of a psychiatric study carried out at Southampton University. This revelation was...
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GCU's broker link
Glasgow Caledonian University has joined with the London Stock Exchange in Glasgow to boost Scotland's business competitiveness. This is the first time that the Exchange has forged such close ties...
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Radical threat to body tissue
No expensive face cream is complete these days without the promise of an agent to wage war on oxygen free radicals. Now scientists are suggesting that the ravages of these cellular troublemakers run...
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'Hanky' vision explained
Scanning tunnelling microscopes (STMs) have provided scientists with the ability to see and even manipulate individual atoms. But do the images they produce actually reflect reality? Andrew Fisher, a...
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Shrimp link to vent life
The larval habits of a bizarre blind shrimp that lives 3,000 feet below the surface of the sea may provide the only link between life around volcanoes on the ocean floor, known as hydrothermal vents...