Lottery breeds 'gambling free-for-all'
CRIES for help to Gamblers Anonymous in the Northwest have risen by 61 per cent since the National Lottery started in November 1994, according to a study at Manchester Metropolitan University. Ken...
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Are nose rings subversive?
IS THE popularity of body piercing merely the latest fashion or does it represent, as some sociologists believe, something more sinister? Once the preserve of pop stars and fairground workers, body...
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Red alert over red light debate
THINKING of prostitution as a normal job does not empower the prostituted women, as some sociologists suggest, and could be counter-productive in debates over legalising the practice, researchers at...
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Maths high fliers rare in engineering ranks
ENGINEERING students are either downhillers, haters, ambivalents or high-fliers when it comes to studying maths, say researchers at Warwick University. Husband and wife team Chris and Vivienne Shaw...
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Sensor implant to measure sugar in blood
A BIOCHEMICAL sensor that can be implanted under the skin could soon free diabetics from the routine of checking their blood sugar levels. The team of researchers at Manchester University led by ?...
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Scottish establishment stifles entrepreneurs
SCOTS may not be so canny when it comes to fostering entrepreneurial spirit, according to the Economic and Social Research Council. Mike Danson, professor of economics at Paisley University, blames...
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Tree frog's opiate better than morphine
A SOUTH American tree frog may hold the key to a new form of painkiller 200 times more powerful than morphine, but without the side effects, researchers at Leicester University have said. John...
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Britons are 'slaves to the steering wheel'
BRITONS are becoming "slaves to the steering wheel" and the Government's measures to cut car dependency are "pitiable" according to research from the Open University. The average household's weekly...
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Women of muscular substance
The female form, gambling, prostitutionand body piercing were among the themes explored at the British Sociological Association at York last week WHY do women weight-train to change their bodies from...
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Britain rallies to the Russian foreign expansion cause
Russian universities are drawing on British experience to improve their recruitment of overseas students and increase sources of outside funding. They want to learn from British institutions how to...
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Italians shun college scene
Italy's universities are witnessing the sharpest drop ever in first-year enrolments. New students for the 1996/97 academic year fell by 3 per cent compared with 1995/96, when, for the first time...
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French researchers get business boost
A draft law that is about to go before the French parliament will allow public sector researchers to start up their own companies, hold stock or become consultants in firms using their research...
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Romania eases way for second language
Romania is on the verge of back-tracking on a legal requirement which made Romanian the mandatory language of instruction for all students at universities and all other levels of education,...
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Delegation banned from Cuban trip
An American delegation to an academic conference in Havana was prevented from travelling to Cuba by the United States government. The seven-member delegation planned to attend the international...
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Lecturers protest over unpaid salary arrears
Lecturers at the University of Ibadan are threatening to withhold examination marks in a dispute over salaries they claim are owed after the end of last year's seven-month strike. And Omoniye Adewoye...