Particle blast-off
Another year, another Forward Look, that tome of statistics and statements on Government policy on science, engineering and technology across all departments. This year, though, the cash-strapped...
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Litter bugs
Anyone travelling on the London Underground can hardly have failed to notice the extensive poster campaign conducted by the University of Westminster extolling the quality of their provision in...
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Brick dropping one
Further education has already won high marks for subtlety from David Melville, future chief executive of the Further Education Funding Council for England. News of his appointment, he told the...
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Trainspotting
In the week of the Railtrack flotation there can really be only one alumnus to be proud of. No 50 in our series is the man who back in the 1960s began the process the Government is now bent on...
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Bullies take the blame for stress-related illnesses
The Educational Institute of Scotland this week launched a campaign to combat bullying at work, which it believes may account for more than half of stress- related illnesses. It aims to agree anti-...
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Very model of a modular approach
The popular image of modular courses as incoherent "pick 'n' mix" programmes is unfounded, a national survey has concluded. Most modular systems set students on pre-determined paths rather than...
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Evolution of pop scientists
Why is Jon Turney so sour about John Brockman and so scornful of his authors (THES, May 10)? Brockman's achievement is to have persuaded regular scientists to write for a general audience. That has...
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UK last in G7 research league
The United Kingdom has notched up the lowest growth in expenditure on research and development over the past ten years among the Group of Seven leading industrialised nations, according to figures...
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Welsh tie to tropics
The ecology of tropical coastal zones is the subject of an unique joint between the University of Wales and Khulna University in Bangladesh. The British Council and the Overseas Development...
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Dramatic role for research
Drama research is taking its place on the European stage with academics locked in debate on its merits. A clutch of publications is set to appear, giving drama researchers a forum for argument on...
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Thanks to Japan for the memory
A Pounds 4 million agreement between Edinburgh University and a leading Japanese drug company may lead to better treatment for stroke victims and people suffering from neurodegenerative illnesses...
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DIY old age gets a no vote
There is very little support for the idea that individuals should pay for their own care in old age, or that of their relatives, early results from a national survey of people's attitudes suggest....
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An electronic whiff of what bulls fancy
Engineers at Glasgow University are trying to sniff out a dairy herd problem with the help of an electronic nose. John Barker, professor of electronics and electrical engineering, who is leading the...
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Summer cum laude in Saratoga Springs
Things begin to heat up at Skidmore College, a liberal arts college in Saratoga Springs, up-state New York, when the students leave for the summer. Children as young as six arrive for basketball and...
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Congress watch on campus crime
The case of an Ohio student allowed to continue college after admitting a drunken sexual assault on a woman classmate has helped renew the controversy over the handling of campus crime. In a two-page...