Accredit where it's due
Therapists are persuading universities to set up degree courses in complementary therapies. But critics are accusing them of trying to get recognition via the back door. Aisling Irwin reports. This...
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Doctors in self-help
Iain Percy-Robb and David Lloyd describe Glasgow medical school's pioneering curriculum. Undergraduates starting their medical studies at the University of Glasgow next October will follow a...
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A cure for teething problems
Dentist training has not kept pace with the improvement in people's teeth. Aubrey Sheiham argues for radical change. Dental caries have decreased dramatically in most industrialised countries in the...
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A dose of the same medicine
Alternative therapies must be subject to the same standards as orthodox medicine, argues Jack Howell. For nearly 140 years since the introduction of the Medical Act 1858, which introduced the...
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Nursing figures for the patient
Florence Nightingale was the first to research patient care. Margaret Alexander and Jenny Hunt look at her followers. "For we who nurse, our nursing is a thing which, unless in it we are making...
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Medical research and teaching
(Photograph) - Research funding for medical and dental schools follows a radically different pattern from that of higher education research funding in general. The pie charts, based on the latest...
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A healthy body of evidence
Increased pressure on resources has seen the development of health care that is based firmly on scientific proof. Olga Wojtas meets John Swales, the academic charged with carrying forward a...
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHUMBRIA. Vince Ramprogus, former director of nursing research at Keele University, has been appointed assistant dean (nursing and midwifery) in the faculty of health, social work...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER. LLD: Mary Hogg, High Court judge and member of the university's court of governors; John MacGregor, former secretary of state for education and science and leader of the...
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Grants
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST. Charities. Dr A. Stitt, Pounds 113,000 from the British Diabetic Association (to finance Dr Stitt's work at the Picower Institute in New York for a year with Dr H....
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Fellowships
LSE. Honorary fellows: John Bourn, comptroller and auditor general; William Cornish, fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge; David Goldstone chairman of Regalian Properties; Mick Jagger, rock singer...
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Chairs
KING ALFRED'S COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION. The following professorial titles have been conferred: Michael Llewellyn, head of the school of science, technology and design; Alan Penny, reader in the...
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Awards
SCHLEGEL-TIECK PRIZE. The German Embassy's Translator's Association prize is shared by Ronald Speirs and William Yuill. The awards recognised Mr Speirs's translation of the political writings of Max...
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Mad cow research at risk
Scientists at the Institute of Animal Health fear that vital research on transmissible diseases, including BSE and scrapie, is under threat because of management plans to cut the workforce by nearly...
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Missile guidance
Mathematicians are great. They have recently shown us how to maximise our lottery winnings; at what stage of emptiness our beer cans are most unstable; and to walk in the rain because running leaves...