The sight seer
Colin Blakemore's experiments on the eyes of monkeys and kittens have earned him a top research prize Q and bombs and threats from animal activists. Colin Blakemore seems more relieved than jubilant...
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Internal exile
Paul Bompard reports on a project to find Italy's lost Jews. As professor of demographics at Rome's La Sapienza university and as a member of Rome's Jewish community, Eugenio Sonnino is preparing a...
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Here's looking at EU
Should Britain be at the heart of a federal Europe? Martin Holmes protests at such a future but Helen Wallace can see advantages. Three arguments have been advanced in favour of a federal/integrated...
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Googie fails to wither
Tim Cornwell reports on the revival of interest in the vulgar US roadside architecture of the 1950s. John English is a veteran of battles to save monuments. He was on hand to mourn the demolition of...
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The Europhile
Should Britain be at the heart of a federal Europe? Martin Holmes protests at such a future but Helen Wallace can see advantages. * Should the British be in favour of Europe or against it? The...
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Calls for medical Academy
The medical community, battered by NHS reforms and splintered into an unwieldy number of committees, councils and colleges, might benefit from an Academy of Medicine, it was claimed this week. A...
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Shell 'ignored' sea experts
Scientific expertise was ignored when disposal options for Shell's Brent Spar offshore platform were drawn up last year, according to a report out this week. An independent group of scientists and...
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Four labs face sell-off probe
Research council laboratories that have already undergone a review of their possible privatisation are to be subject to yet another study by the Government. Declaring the findings of the Government's...
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Squeeze of 5.8% for FE
Details of almost Pounds 3 billion of funding allocations for 1996/97 released this week show a revenue increase of 3.4 per cent over last year, according to the Further Education Funding Council....
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Time to be upfront about excellence
Belief that academic excellence is a shield for universities' autonomy is clearly wrong, according to Thorsten Nybom, director of the Swedish Council for Studies of Higher Education in Stockholm. "...
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Applied goals also tackle the basics
The 1993 White Paper Realising Our Potential set the United Kingdom's science and engineering base a new challenge - to maintain world-class excellence in research, while giving increased attention...
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Contrite college refuses refund
The University of Greenwich is refusing demands from a student for a refund of fees despite admissions from senior management that she received a "bad deal". Quality assurance arrangements in its...
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Francis Crick
(Photograph) - Francis Crick is about to turn 80, but the Nobel laureate is not a man to rest on past glories. In an exclusive interview with Kam Patel on page 15, he describes his latest research...
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Labour's bold fanfare awaits Dearing's band
Labour will look to the Dearing committee to fill in the detail on its plans for higher education funding reform. The plans, formally launched this week, represent a shift from previous Labour party...
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Think-tank backs course vouchers
An Ivy League of internationally-prestigious British universities offering high class but expensive degree courses could be established if plans drawn up by the Adam Smith Institute to reorganise...