Fee move hits asylum seekers
The Government has been criticised for closing a loophole over course fees for overseas students without offering protection from the full cost for asylum seekers. Tim Boswell, further and higher...
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Maths forecasts may soon save lives
Julian Hunt, president of the Institute of Mathematics, yesterday held out the promise of mathematicians in the future being able to differentiate between natural and man-made variability in the...
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Centre sifts evidence on health
A controversial approach to providing research and information back-up for health professionals is the focus of a centre opened in Oxford this week. "Evidence-based medicine" is an idea imported from...
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Global warming to resite wheat crops
A new model of the effects of global warming predicts that wheat crop production could drop by a third in drought-prone countries and those of low latitude. But crop production could surge elsewhere...
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Putting heads together helps hearts
A multi-disciplinary approach to problems faced by heart surgeons is producing significant progress in the treatment of coronary disease, according to Gianni Angelini, professor of cardiothoracic...
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Trail of martyr's remains goes cold
糖心Vlog Office delays are preventing the final chapter being written in an archaeological quest to recover the head of Yagan, an assassinated Aboriginal leader. Southampton University postgraduate...
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Supercrete to rule world
A world of half-mile high skyscrapers has come closer with the development of a new super concrete at Dundee University. "Nothing can touch this material. It has amazing properties," said Rod Jones...
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Japanese build on teams
Workers at Japanese manufacturing firms in the United Kingdom are involved much more in the running and management of their plants than employees in British and other foreign-owned companies,...
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Nationalism's healthy state
"Ten years ago, everyone wanted to study Marxism. Today, it is nationalism and ethnicity." So said Brendan O'Leary, lecturer at the London School of Economics, at the fifth annual conference of the...
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Airports unpack suitcases with maths
A machine that can "unpack" suitcases electronically could soon be piloted in a British airport as a result of a breakthrough in X-ray imaging at Nottingham Trent University. Bags put in X-ray...
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Vice chancellors' pay
Huw Richards surveys the information currently available on top people's pay in institutions for 1993/94 In the notes which accompany the financial statement, balance sheet and auditors' report for...
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Wellcome switch to overseas research
Hopes that the Wellcome Trust would spend its newly boosted income on medical research in the United Kingdom have faltered with the publication of its new policy statement, in which it emphasises...
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Ceasefire gives Ulster a chance to improve city
An Institute of Urban Affairs for Belfast is to open as part of a Government plan to improve the city in the aftermath of the paramilitary ceasefires. Academics from the University of Ulster, where...
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Probe into why doctors drop out
The British Medical Association is drawing up plans to follow the careers of 500 medical students to discover why up to a quarter drop out of the profession three years after qualifying. One possible...
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BT cash source for small projects
Builders all carry mobile telephones, but they have reason to hate British Telecom. Peter Thompson, head of BT Education Services, says that when dealing with university requests for funds the...