Grants
SWANSEA INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION. The Product Development Centre has received Pounds 546,838 from the European Regional Development Fund (development of a medical technology transfer centre and...
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Awards
ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND THE INSTITUTE OF BRITISH GEOGRAPHERS. Founder's Medal: John Woods, professor and dean of the graduate school of the environment at Imperial College, for contributions...
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Fast-track students lead way
Students on "fast-track" degree courses tend to out-perform their peers on traditional undergraduate programmes, a study has concluded. But they are also more likely to drop out, or to have problems...
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Lasers for Scottish eyes
Dundee will be the first Scottish centre offering laser treatment for corneal diseases through the National Health Service following the appointment of Charles McGhee as Dundee University's first...
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Pro-fees lobby told to donate pay
An attempt to defuse the debate in Germany over tuition fees by the Gutersloh- based Centre for ÌÇÐÄVlog Development provoked noisy student protests this month. Students demonstrated their...
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Science writers: facts and fiction
There are a number of factual errors in an article about me by Jon Turney that appeared on page 15 of the THES on May 10. 1. Turney states that three of this year's Rhone-Poulenc science book prize...
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Beauty is in the eye of a Greek chisel holder
Do we find certain people sexy because we have been unduly influenced by the anatomical preferences of a sculptor who has been dead for over 2,500 years? George Hersey looks at the enduring and...
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Taking the plunge
(Photograph) - Taking the plunge: modern societies are full of risks, many man-made. Mad cow disease, genetically modified organisms, fertility-threatening chemicals, polluted water, the list grows...
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Failed Lancaster college cast adrift
Lancaster University is to hive off its teacher training operation at Charlotte Mason College following a controversial Ofsted report that rated important areas of the college's work as...
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Shrewd stampings
Hard on the heels of Michael Heseltine advising British business to stay afloat by late payment of bills comes the audit division of the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England with its own...
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Oxford to study gender differences of degree
Academics at Oxford University are hoping to conduct Britain's first-ever systematic study of the differences between men and women's degree performance. The study, to be carried out by Margaret...
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Gravity map in space
Three-dimensional gravity maps that would allow planes and submarines to navigate in the next century could result from the first complete United Kingdom university experiment on a Nasa space shuttle...
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Rector gets ministry
If the new centre-left coalition in Italy lasts longer than recent governments it will fall to Luigi Berlinguer, 63, former rector of Siena University, to oversee in-depth reform of universities....
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Longer loans from Labour
Your anonymous author ("A Doctorate in McMarking?", Research Opportunities, May 17) illustrates a common view of what it is like to be a PhD student. However, for the majority, a PhD is a hugely...
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Soeur passing her limits
Stella Hughes talks to Helene Cixous, a feminist theorist who finds the label far too constricting to describe her numerous activities. The name of Helene Cixous means different things to different...