Needles for sore noddles
Sufferers from tension headaches may soon be regularly treated by acupuncture if research at the University of Exeter is successful. Researchers at the Centre for Complementary Health Studies in the...
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Tourist project may save otter
Tourism expert Myra Shackley is heading for a forgotten part of the Guyanan jungle in a bid to save some of the world's last remaining giant otters from the threat of illegal hunting and extinction....
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Coastal college changeover
The University College Scarborough swapped its allegiance from Leeds University to York this week in a move which reflects the sea change in relations between universities and their colleges. George...
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Scottish union scuppers AUT talk
A Scottish lecturers' union is angry that its parent body has refused to allow potential merger talks with the Association of University Teachers. Leaders of the University Lecturers' Association,...
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Law students win case
Law students from Northern Ireland have won their case in the Irish Republic. The high court in Dublin ruled after a complex two-month case that the Law Society in the Republic has been...
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Nutritionist's food for thought
Nutritionists are so plagued by pressures from industry, governments and funding agencies that their science would appear "unacceptably relativist" to other disciplines, according to Prakash Shetty,...
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Consensus marks rival party plans
As Parliament resumes this week, a growing consensus on further and higher education policies is emerging as the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats unveil their ideas for the future of...
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Cash fillip for GP training
Medical schools have welcomed National Health Service funding arrangements for medical and dental students despite uncertainty over finance for expansion. Health minister Gerald Malone has confirmed...
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Pioneer probe of nervous system
Glaxo Wellcome is giving a further Pounds 7 million to London's new strategic medical research institute this week for work on the role nitric oxide plays in sending messages through the central...
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Otters tracked from droppings
Otter droppings and grouse feathers will allow scientists to help Scottish wildlife conservationists. An ecological molecular genetics laboratory opened this week at Aberdeen University, bringing...
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V-cs transfixed by the other national lottery
Huw Richards, in the first of a four-part series, evaluates the impact of the Research Assessment Exercise for 1996. The Research Assessment Exercise enters its fourth incarnation next year amid...
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PM stakes
On his best orotund form in giving his talk at the Institute of Historical Research, Lord Jenkins found time to comment on other political figures as well as Gladstone. Focusing on his successor Lord...
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Speeding at 74
If biographers leave their imprint on their subjects, the converse is equally true. Shortly after telling a seminar about Gladstone's formidable, long-lived energy the 74-year-old Lord Jenkins was...
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Academic drift
At last a use for all the material that never made it into the research assessment exercise? This week the Friends of Dundee University's botanic garden organised a lecture by "alternative" floral...
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Brushes with Basil
(Photograph) - Brushes with Basil: controversial sociologist Basil Bernstein received two Festschrifts, collections of essays on the influence of his ideas at a celebration at the University of Wales...