Magnesium clue to asthma risk
The popularity of foods deficient in magnesium could provide the answer to why asthma is more common in developed rather than subsistence countries, according to medical researchers at Nottingham...
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The grass could be greener
Britain needs a complete rethink of the way it sees rural areas, according to Philip Lowe, director of the Centre for Rural Economy at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. The centre, which...
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Decline of British social science sets in
The international representation of United Kingdom-authored papers, articles, notes and reviews in social science has declined markedly since 1985, according to a bibliometric analysis by researchers...
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Cardiff compact sealed
Cardiff Institute of Higher Education has just launched a compact with eight schools in South Glamorgan which should make degree and diploma courses more accessible to inner city pupils. Based on an...
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Abbey resumes full-time diploma habit
Newbattle Abbey College, Scotland's sole residential adult education college, whose core funding was axed by Government in 1989, will this year restore two full-time diploma courses. Since 1989, the...
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Campus fit for Queen's Belfast
Queen's University Belfast is pressing ahead with a new campus in Armagh, Northern Ireland's third city and ecclesiastical centre. The campus is likely to open in the autumn. The announcement steals...
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Loans firm logs Pounds 1.5m IT bill
The Student Loans Company spent Pounds 1.5 million in the academic year 1993/94 on "computer development costs" - an increase of nearly Pounds 1 million on the previous year's spending. Douglas...
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Centre pioneers drug addiction research
Treating and preventing drug and alcohol misuse is the aim of a research centre which opened this week at Swansea University. Based in the department of psychology, the Centre of Substance Abuse...
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Pressure for Nottingham suicide inquiry continues
Nottingham University is under renewed pressure to hold an independent inquiry into the suicide of politics professor David Regan. The university's council and senate this month rejected the idea...
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Scotland advances its 'gold standard'
Scotland's higher education principals, in their first statement on Government plans to reform school exams, have warned that the proposed two-year Advanced Higher must not be confused with A levels...
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Lib-Dems push voucher funding
Don Foster, the Liberal Democrat education spokesman who put his job on the line when he announced a policy U-turn last year, is preparing another bold move with proposals to overhaul funding and...
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Ballot answer
Glasgow University is seeking Privy Council approval for a new single transferable vote system to elect its chancellor, to replace the first past the post method. Chancellor, Sir Alec Cairncross, who...
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Looking east
Sheffield University is opening an East Asia research centre to help strengthen its links with the region. The centre will provide fellowships and graduate bursaries for research in areas such as...
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Bradford deal
Bradford University's Management Centre has won a contract to provide an MBA course in Israel. It will link up with the Israel Management Centre in Tel-Aviv to provide a two-year part-time course for...
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Feeling twitchy
Last week's request for possible titles for the academic soap opera suggested by the Association for Colleges brought a rapid response from Alan Broad of Oxford, who nominated Drop the Dead Don. For...