Surrey goes into orbit with microsatellite
SPACECRAFT engineers at Surrey University have been awarded a Pounds 3.3 million contract by the United States Air Force to design and build a small experimental satellite. Called PICOSat, the 65-...
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Imperial puts medical records on-line
MEDICAL records could soon be fully digitised and include interactive multimedia features thanks to new work from Imperial College, London. A team led by Richard Kitney, director of the centre for...
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'Chicken' weeds out anti-social behaviour
A SIMPLE game of "chicken" has led two Leicester University psychologists to conclude that the "prison works" anti-crime policy is futile. Andrew Colman and Clare Wilson studied behaviour patterns of...
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Fruit flies may offer human DNA clues
DUNDEE University is coordinating a Pounds 2 million pan-European project which hopes to cast light on human genetic make-up by examining the DNA of the fruit fly. David Glover of the department of...
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Airline pilots' team work takes off
THE CIVIL Aviation Authority is funding Aberdeen University research into how airline pilots behave in a team. All UK airline pilots are now being trained to improve the skills needed to work...
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Quality plan for global value
A national quality assurance system to control degree standards at South African universities and technikons is to be set up by the government. It would give all tertiary qualifications in South...
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Higher education quality control
* South Africans brainstormed ideas about higher education quality control with 165 experts from 25 countries at the biannual conference of the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in...
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Drivers prove that time is money
DRIVERS are twice as likely to drive dangerously if they are paying for time spent on the road, according to research from Leeds University. A study using a driving simulator showed that drivers were...
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Vents hold key to oceans' secrets
FOR the past 20 years marine geologists may have been searching for deep vents on the ocean floor in the wrong places. These hydrothermal vents emit plumes of chemical-rich waters from the earth's...
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German fraud shock
GERMANY'S scientific community fears that the international reputation of German science could suffer a serious blow following allegations of the country's biggest-ever scientific fraud. Cancer...
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Greeks give amber light to private unis
PROPOSED constitutional reform in Greece may end the state universities' monopoly on providing higher education and open the way for private universities by 2000. The Greek constitution forbids...
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Luminary quits Italy
Renato Dulbecco, the Italian biologist who in 1975 won the Nobel prize for medicine, has announced he has decided to leave Italy and go back to working in the United States because he is fed up with...
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Paris colleges bury hatchet
A quarter of a century after the carve-up of the Sorbonne, the Paris universities are staging anniversary celebrations next week aimed at repairing some of the remaining faultlines caused by the 1972...
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Staff exits batter US outposts
One tends to think of the overseas offshoots of American universities as sunlit islands of academic tranquillity, a kind of higher education Butlins for the students and a Muthaiga Club for the...
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Single-policy Aids approach under fire
The World Health Organisation's "McDonald's-style" approach to dealing with Aids came under attack at a conference in Kingston, Ontario, in Canada. The ten-day summit of 35 international Aids...