Cryopreservation
(Photograph) - Frozen moment: Erica Benson, of the University of Abertay and Barbara Reed from the United States department of agriculture examine blackcurrant shoots being used to examine the...
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Cool hands work on crop probe
Scottish and American scientists are collaborating in deep-freeze research which could underpin the future breeding of new varieties of food crops. The University of Abertay Dundee is coordinating...
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Crater holds Earth clues
Geologists at Imperial College, London are to lead an international effort by scientists to discover the shape and structure of the largest known crater on Earth. The Chicxulub crater, in Mexico is...
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Edinburgh University's professorial husband and wife
(Photograph) - Edinburgh University's professorial husband and wife team, molecular biologist Sir Kenneth Murray and molecular geneticist Noreen Murray, will receive a twin double honour this summer...
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Welsh FE grows despite squeeze
Further education in Wales has been described as bouyant after nearly Pounds 150 million was awarded to colleges for an 8 per cent expansion next year. But the squeeze on providers to become more...
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Funders ask about peer pressure
Welsh further education colleges are being consulted on whether they want peer evaluation to become a formal part of the quality assessment process, writes David Charter. In practice, the views of...
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Daylight robery
Durham University is anxiously asking whether anybody's chancellor is improperly dressed. The chancellors were out in force at the Queen's awards for higher education at Buckingham Palace earlier in...
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Fair exchange
Mind you, the unwary might have concluded that the PSA had taken to including ratings of speakers in lieu of their institutions in the programme list issued for last week's annual conference at York...
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All for nought
"Political Studies Association in political correctness split storm shock". Well not exactly. One or two people, notably Philip Norton, professor of politics at Hull University, did get rather...
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Stolen moments
The Department for Education's lurch this week on to the information superhighway may yet be hampered by the necessary equipment being in the wrong hands, if the trend seen in a written answer given...
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MPs clash on Barts merger
A private Bill to merge St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College with the Royal London Hospital and Queen Mary and Westfield College has moved a stage forward in the Commons despite a stormy Labour...
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Essex v-c quits to return to research
Ron Johnston, vice chancellor of Essex University, is to step down after three years in the post. Professor Johnston, 54, will leave at the end of this academic year. He said he had decided to return...
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Blunkett's post-school unity
The Labour Party is drawing up plans for unifying education for the over-16s, with employers and training providers playing significant roles. David Blunkett, the shadow education secretary, wants...
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Odd Bods
Where can you buy a Relativity Mouse Mat, a pair of sterling silver earring replicas of Oxford's Radcliffe Camera, and a "bundle" of J. R. R. Tolkien goodies, all at the push of a button? Only in a...
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Rotund affair
Nowadays, every county council worth its salt wants a university, not least because it is likely to mean an extra Pounds 50 million or so to the local coffers. But there was a time when university...