The two and a half degrees to domesday
The concept of global warming is more than 100 years old, but confusion still reigns about the solution. John Houghton explains his blueprint for survival. Global warming is firmly on the national...
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The woman from Auntie
Former Woman's Hour editor Sally Feldman tells Kam Patel why she is leaving journalism to become dean of the school of media at The London College of Printing. Sally Feldman laughs as she recalls her...
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Food's new watchdog
Most people still think most of the food they eat is safe. The BSE saga rumbles on, 21 died in last year's E.coli food poisoning outbreak in Scotland, parents worry about children driven hyperactive...
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The Gene advice Shop
Saturday 8am, Manchester Piccadilly station, and the train to the airport is sprinkled with teenage clubbers. Manchester airport itself, all halogen floorspots and burnished metal, is buzzing. There...
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Chairs
Southampton Institute Edward Chaney, senior lecturer in fine arts valuation, has been appointed professor of fine and decorative arts; David Piper, dean of academic information service, professor of...
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Honorary degrees
University College, Suffolk LittD: Trevor Nunn, director of the National Theatre and director emeritus of the Royal Shakespeare Company. MA: Bobby Robson, technical director of football at Barcelona...
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Lectures
Darwin College Lecture Series 1998 The 13th annual Darwin College Lectures will be held in the Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge on Fridays at 5.30pm as follows: January 16: The...
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Appointments
University and Colleges Admissions Service Michael Goldstein, vice chancellor of Coventry University, has been elected chairman. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council David White,...
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Awards
The British Universities and Colleges Physical Education Association The BUCPEA David Munrow Award in recognition of distinguished services to sports science was presented to Clyde Williams,...
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Unions push on pay front
LECTURERS may launch a campaign of industrial action early in the new year after chancellor Gordon Brown dashed public sector pay hopes. The Association of University Teachers warned this week of a...
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Raid reveals 17 illegal British lecturers
IMMIGRATION officers are checking all private higher education colleges in Malaysia after a raid last week exposed 23 illegal lecturers, 17 of them British. The lecturers, aged between 26 and 47,...
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Derby's dreams shattered
DERBY University's ambitious scheme to transform itself into Britain's first "colliversity" by merging with nearby colleges was in tatters this week as the key player pulled out without warning....
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Making up takes time to do
Universities in the Canary Islands have learned the benefits of working together. Rebecca Warden reports Six YEARS ago the two universities of the Canary Islands were not on speaking terms - one...
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Daily exercises keep the clock running
People who live longer do not have to fear a decrepit old age if they just keep active, say scientists Dorothy Dobson, Dundee University assistant director of physical education, pioneered exercise...
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Brown dwarf stars
Universities in the Canary Islands have learned the benefits of working together. Rebecca Warden reports THE Astrophysics Institute of the Canaries was founded in the 1960s when Spain's first...