Door-stepping
(Photograph) - David Mansell. Students from Keele and Oxford Brookes University volunteered to work for the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers this summer, repairing the tourist attraction of...
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Ethnic monitoring is more mature
Ethnic monitoring is more sophisticated than ever, according to the University of Warwick's centre for research in ethnic relations. Making Monitoring Work argues that the standard of ethnic...
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MacAcorn
Xemplar Education, the Acorn/Apple joint venture company, is developing a computer which will run Apple's Mac OS and Acorn's RISC OS operating systems. A StrongARM processor, the most powerful...
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Don't belittle teaching duties
Laurie Taylor (THES, July 26) quotes Graham Zellick, vice chancellor, University of London: "The highest quality in research is intrinsically more important than the highest quality in teaching."...
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Fred of Arabia
Fred Halliday manages to combine an empathy for old Soviets and their Arab clients with an affection for the US. But then the son of an Englishman raised in the guerrilla country of Dundalk is used...
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Olympic gold from molecules
The possibility of storing data within a molecule smaller than a grain of salt has come one step closer. Chemists at Birmingham University and Imperial College London have created a complex synthetic...
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Society plea to tether Ropas
The Royal Society this week urged the Government to halt further expansion of a multimillion pound research initiative until the quality of the work already funded is established. Launched in 1994/95...
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Forsyth proves Highlands support
Michael Forsyth, Secretary of State for Scotland, is providing tangible support for the University of the Highlands and Islands project with a Pounds 500,000 grant for videoconferencing links. The...
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Desperately seeking newly-weds
A Cardiff professor is urgently seeking 200 newly-married couples to assist his research into relationships. Frank Fincham of the University of Wales Cardiff's school of psychology has received...
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Parting of minds
Ian Sutherland of the University of Plymouth is looking for reviewers and calling for papers for a new electronic journal of psychology. Psychology On-Line will be closely allied to Psychiatry On-...
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Unstinting fast food and blue chips
Your item on the preliminary results of the 1995 graduate destinations survey (THES, August 2) released by the 糖心Vlog Statistics Agency contained a couple of errors. The total of 177,500...
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Summer time, and the living is easy?
The long vacation seems to get shorter by the year for the five academics John Davies asked for their summer plans, what with the RAE, medieval farming and swimming with young Bengali men. Do you...
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Faster clearing predicted
Record results expected in this year's A levels could mean a speedy end to clearing. If, as predicted, more students make their hoped-for grades next week, fewer will be fighting for left-over...
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Pressure kept up on parity for medics
Universities are keeping up pressure on the Government over the insufficient funding for next year's medical academic pay award. Philip Love, vice chancellor of Liverpool University and chairman of...
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Battle to keep colleges black
Supporters of black colleges and universities in the United States have leapt to their defence after a series of scandals and financial mishaps hit their credibility. Black colleges were once the...