Springing to history's defence
Bournemouth University has established a national resource centre dealing with history of defence electronics. It comes under the department of conservation sciences and aims to contribute to the...
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Genetic clue to MS found
Southampton University medical researchers have made a discovery in their search for genetic clues to multiple sclerosis. The disease affects around 80,000 people in the United Kingdom and two...
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Ozone blamed for shorter crops
Air pollution in the fast-growing cities of the third world may be stunting their food crops by 40 per cent, researchers at Imperial College have found. This poses serious problems because the...
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Cash calls tune for admissions
Access to higher education is becoming "access by ability to pay" throughout western, central and eastern Europe, according to a study of under-representation in European higher education. "Other...
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Police probe fake racist letter
More than 200 copies of an extreme anti-Semitic letter falsely claiming to be from the warden of Lincoln Theological College have been sent to police by incensed recipients. College warden Canon...
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Science 'losing its cutting edge'
Big changes in the way science is practised is leading to a new framework for the production of knowledge that could mean a decline in scientific objectivity, according to physicist and science...
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Space crisis at the Bodleian
Oxford's Bodleian Library is facing an acute shelving crisis. According to the chief librarian David Vaisey, it needs new buildings if it is to meet the requirements of students and scholars in the...
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Luton's career vision is strictly personal
Luton is not a main stop on the milkround. It is not on the beaten track of blue chip companies chasing brilliant undergraduates. Yet the evidence suggests that this newest of English universities...
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Professor backs medical merger
The strategy to boost research in a new London medical school could also benefit undergraduate teaching, given "vision and great managerial expertise", according to Peter Richards, dean of St Mary's...
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College loses appeal against racism
Kingsway College, a further education college in central London, has lost its appeal against a tribunal decision last November that it discriminated against a lecturer on the grounds of his race and...
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Welsh colleges urged to sign deal for careers advice
Further education students have the right to expect "informed supportive and timely careers guidance" according to the 1993 Further Education Charter. Implementing that target for students in Wales...
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Metamorphosis
(Photograph) - Metamorphosis: Edinburgh's former psychiatric hospital, Craighouse, is being redeveloped as a fourth campus for Napier University. The university has launched a campaign to raise...
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Masters in legal studies proposed
A broader and more intellectually rigorous approach to vocational training for lawyers that could usher in a new master's programme, has been proposed by the Lord Chancellor's advisory committee on...
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Academic staff in dark on cash decisions
Open and accountable decision-making in universities should be enshrined in legislation or funding conditions, the Council for Academic Autonomy has recommended. The pressure group says such...
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Marsden makes scanner advance
A state-of-the-art Pounds 1.5 million magnetic resonance scanner installed this week at the Royal Marsden National Health Service Trust will give cancer researchers better and more detailed...