Cereal beats killer salt
The search for crops that can survive the increasingly salty soils of some developing countries has taken a step forward. A researcher has produced a highly nutritious plant that can live in 50 per...
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Bringing up baby to avoid cot death
Preventing cot death is the aim of a Pounds 450,000 specialist unit established at Bristol University's Institute of Child Health. Supported by The Foundation for Study of Infant Death and the Anne...
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Jellyfish plague clogs Mediterranean
The Levant coastline, stretching from Egypt to the Syrian/Turkish border, boasts some of the best beaches in the Mediterranean. Gently sloping shorelines, clear skies, deep sand, warm waters, hot...
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Unique insight into the mists of infancy
A Dundee University psychology graduate has won a Pounds 20,000 studentship from the Economic and Social Research Council for a three-year investigation into the development of blind babies. Julie...
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Long term test to trace alcohol
A simple test is being developed that will allow the medical implications of long-term alcohol consumption to be assessed, writes Rifat Malik. Currently, blood alcohol tests can only measure alcohol...
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Getting poorer by degrees
Do Scottish students drop out or not take up courses because of hardship or lack of support? The THES asked some. A Scottish helpline to match Highers results against course vacancies has revealed...
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School's in for longer
Scottish pupils are achieving better qualifications, with almost half of the 1993 school-leavers staying in full time education, according to Raymond Robertson, Scottish Office minister for education...
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Enrol, turn off, drop out
Universities and schools are investing time and money to encourage pupils to apply to higher education. Yet, those pupils who find themselves in academic difficulties are complaining that the support...
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Guardian of OU ethos
A chance meeting with Michael Young, founder of the Open University, at the University of Botswana's extra-mural department in 1975 sealed the fate of Mary Thorpe, who is the new and first female...
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Learned plugging of Whitehall gaps
Yes, Minister! and Alan Clark's Diaries may give the impression that the workings of British government are widely understood, but in fact the field is one of the black holes of academic knowledge....
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Elementary, my dear Bayesian
A mathematical technique first developed in Britain in the early 1760s is now a hot favourite in helping forensic scientists tackle the shortcomings in their work. Called "Bayesian inference" after...
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Cleanliness gets closer to costliness
A detailed study of household hygiene habits has led economists from Leicester University to predict that domestic water use in south and eastern England will rise by an average 40 per cent over the...
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Ex-director admits lack of skill
A key player in the Government's heavily criticised privatisation of the Skills Training Agency in 1990 has now admitted that the move was a failure. At the time of its sell-off, STA boasted a...
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Water meters 'are kneejerk reaction'
Water companies should have to pay for the water they take, says a Middlesex University academic. And they should install water-saving devices free of charge in their customers' homes. This would...
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Sculptured form
(Photograph) - Sculptured form: Yuko Tabata from Japan at the summer school of Slade School of Fine Art, part of the University College, London