Commons to investigate
The House of Commons science and technology committee is to turn its attention to GM foods as part of its investigation into how government uses scientific advice. It will be speaking to Dr Pusztai,...
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Science by press release
British scientists this week mounted a counter-offensive to the newspaper headlines damning genetically modified food, claiming there was no justification for a ban on planting GM crops. Their action...
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Science minister Lord Sainsbury
* Science minister Lord Sainsbury was this week hanging on in office despite allegations of potential conflict of interest over genetically modified food. The Guardian had to back down after saying...
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Liberal arts ads irk free-thinkers
Boston Rather than bemoan a continuing decline in enrolment in the liberal arts, the college of arts and sciences at Indiana University did something about it: it advertised. The college tried luring...
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Venetians launch arts manager degree
Rome Venice's Ca' Foscari University has launched a degree course in the economics and management of the arts. The degree will teach students how to run a museum, organise cultural events, make an...
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What the Pusztai research was about
Arpad Pusztai's experiment at the Rowett Research Institute was designed to identify whether potatoes could be genetically engineered to produce a powerful insecticide and yet still be safe to eat,...
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Arpad pusztai speaks out
The scientist at the centre of allegations of suppression of research was freed this week to speak out about his controversial findings that genetically modified foods may cause ill-effects. Arpad...
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On the move
Sir Dominic Cadbury, 58, chairman of Cadbury Schweppes plc, is to chair the Wellcome Trust when Sir Roger Gibbs retires on December 31. He will become a governor of the trust on June 1. Patrick...
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George Mudie
Lifelong learning minister George Mudie takes his brief so much to heart that he once took private French lessons from a fellow backbencher and, more recently, signed up for a Saturday afternoon...
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Don's Diary
Monday A re-accreditation visit from the professional body to validate my course. The kids on holiday from school and Shirley away with her mother. Preparation for the visit from Finland from our...
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The THES Diary
The right hand of Hod Sick as a parrot after being sacked for claiming paedophilia is not always harmful and saying blacks are usually less intelligent than whites, former Edinburgh University...
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Glittering prizes
Former United States senator George Mitchell, 66, chair of the commission that produced the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland and recently appointed chancellor of Queen's, Belfast, has...
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Weathering a Soros storm
James Sadkovich describes his disillusion with the management of the American University in Bulgaria Named after the founder of the Bulgarian Communist Party, Blagoevgrad is a small town tucked into...
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World watch
Rome More than 400 Italian academics have signed a declaration against human cloning and sent it to the Pope. Bruno Dallapiccola, genetics professor at Tor Vergata University in Rome, said: "The...
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World watch
Moscow Academician Abel Aganbegyan, one of the principal architects of perestroika in the former Soviet Union, has been charged with "stealing" two buildings belonging to the Academy of the National...