(Photograph) - Why people like Saddam couldn't make more of themselves. As the UK commission into human cloning prepares to publish its report next week, one cloning advocate has been branded mad,...
University researchers stand to gain as the new Food Standards Agency establishes its independence. The agency, due to come into operation at the end of 1999, is expected to have a Pounds 25 million...
The science budget next year will be almost Pounds 30 million lower in real terms than this year as the government keeps to Conservative spending levels. The budget for 1998-99 is Pounds 1,338...
Baroness Blackstone, higher education minister, told the House of Commons science and technology select committee this week that she was "optimistic" that the comprehensive spending review would...
GOVERNMENT ambitions for an extra 500,000 students in higher education by the millennium came under threat from lecturers yesterday. David Triesman, general secretary of the Association of University...
THE government has rejected the claimed threat to Scottish universities caused by its tuition fee plans. Brian Wilson, Scottish Office minister for education and industry, told the Commons that fears...
Queen's University, Belfast and the University of Ulster have been warned of potential further cuts in government cash for research. Tony Worthington, the province's education minister, said: "They...
The National Audit Office is considering whether to investigate the management of grants by the government's research councils. Each year the NAO does 50 "value for money" studies of different areas...
A GRADE 2* listed railway station is to be moved to make way for Oxford University's Said Business School. The university is trying to find a heritage railway society site for the disused station,...
Four out of the ten appointees to the government's Numeracy Task Force, aimed at raising school standards in arithmetic and maths, are professors, including chairman David Reynolds, professor of...
The Medical Research Council has published its new procedures for dealing with allegations of scientific misconduct. Though the council says allegations of scientific misconduct, including...
The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee is to launch an inquiry into engineering and physical sciences based innovation. It will look at how engineering firms choose which new products...
Leading physics researchers in industry and academia are being brought together through three new networks funded with Pounds 150,000. The networks, covering quantum optics, liquid matter and soft...
June Wilson, a single parent in the first year of an administration and information management course at Falkirk College of Further and ÌÇÐÄVlog, received her cheque at the end of October....
AN OPEN University teacher training course has failed part of its quality inspection by the Office for Standards in Education. But the Teacher Training Agency has decided not to withdraw funds. "The...