A waste of 20:20 foresight
Predicting presidents is a hazardous business which political scientists often avoid, but Robert Elgie now regrets not going into print several months ago with his views on the French presidential...
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Satellite launch boost for UK
The United Kingdom's environmental scientists will reap huge dividends from the European satellite, ERS-2, due for launch last night. The satellite will watch changes in the earth's seas and...
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Criminal conundrum spawns retribution
Government rhetoric about crime prevention has not been matched by action, but there has been an impact at local level. Adam Edwards, research officer at the centre for the study of public order at...
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Broken dreams
Aberdeen University is planning a parachute jump by 500 students as part of its quincentenary celebrations. But there has been some alarm at the discovery of statistics showing that this will result...
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Gender pioneer
Dundee University, which is setting up Scotland's first chair in gender relations, also boasts the first woman to hold a chair in a Scottish University. Margaret Fairlie, a pioneer user of radium who...
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Acronym angst
The Campaign for Release from an Acronym-Sodden Society, CRASS, has awarded its April wooden spoon to Bradford University's planned European programme of environmental education, the Module on...
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Quantum leap
More popular than the paperback version of Edith Wharton's The Buccaneers, and nearly as popular as Interview with the Vampire, is a book by an Open University professor which reached the top ten in...
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Psychological blow
Students will be alarmed to hear that the man who discovered that they cheat frequently has been appointed president of the British Psychological Society. Stephen Newstead, professor of psychology at...
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Ceilidh of death
Geneticists worried that their latest conference, "The Genetics of Death", held in Glasgow, might be too depressing to bear, organised "a variant on a traditional Scottish entertainment" to liven...
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Keeping suite
Colleges Employers Forum chief executive Roger Ward wishes his good standing abroad would trickle back to the folks at home. Far from the noise of his protest-surrounded bunker in Oxford Street, and...
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Seeing the light
The Skeptic magazine recently queried Allergies and Allergens by Albert Budden, which claims that some people are not only hypersensitive to electricity, sounds and smells - but see aliens into the...
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Time warped
An academic hour is very different from an ordinary hour - or so the Russians believe. Students on a recent exchange visit to St Petersburg were told that the advertised four hours of lessons a day...
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Nosey Parker on trail of student dodgers
Southampton Institute has hired a private security firm to track down students who dodge a campus car-parking fee of Pounds 15. The firm is hunting for students who park for free in neighbouring...
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Scorpion trial virologist stung by ousting
David Bishop, the ousted director of the Institute of Virology and Environmental Microbiology, is considering legal action against his former employer, the Natural Environment Research Council, on a...
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Lawyers pressed to put accent on Europe
The Law Society said this week it was concerned about a growing number of clients suing lawyers for professional negligence over a failure to consider European Union law in pursuit of a case. This is...