Snake poison slows cancer growth
Snake venom slows tumour growth, according to Francis Markland of the University of Southern California School of Medicine. Mice implanted with human breast cancer cells showed a 60-70 per cent...
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Instant relief at hand for heartburn sufferers
Scientists at Strathclyde University have developed hydrogel "bandages" that can be swallowed to provide instant relief from heartburn. Unlike anti-acid tablets, which settle in the stomach and...
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Sociologists find staff respond to kindness
A team of sociologists at Ohio State University has found that basic standards of employment, such as job security and good relationships between workers and managers, were more important than...
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Goods tax threatens research
PLANS by Australia's conservative government to introduce a goods and services tax as part of its sweeping fiscal reforms will add considerably to university operating costs and to the outlays...
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Vice chancellors agree to take over Study Abroad Consortium
The vice-chancellors also agreed to take over the Commonwealth Universities Study Abroad Consortium, which has been managed by the Commonwealth Secretariat. The ACU is backing the scheme to encourage...
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Calm thoughts
(Photograph) - Calm thoughts: the vice chancellors could try meditation to calm their stressful lives, according to the Venerable Professor K. Vajira (left) of the Buddhist and Pali University in Sri...
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Regions' show of strength
The pivotal role of universities in small towns and isolated regions was underlined at the conference. The University of the West Indies has been a leader in fighting entrenched poverty. Its vice-...
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Did you hear the one about the economist and the sheep?
There is a convention that almost every speech at a conference must begin with a joke. Such jokes can reveal much about the obsessions and bugbears of the delegates. And just what is it that...
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Students forum to take place in 1999
A small group from the University of British Columbia is planning a Commonwealth conference for students to be held next year in Vancouver. The Commonwealth Universities' Student Congress will try to...
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Power to the regions
SWOT opportunities: A growing focus on the regions, exemplified in Spain and now Scotland, offers new opportunities to UK universities. Paul Heywood hopes they will be able to exploit them. It has...
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Industry must exert 'pull' on science base
Industry should do more to exploit the scientific research of universities in the United Kingdom, the incoming director general of the research councils believes. "We need to raise awareness of major...
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Fire fears shut down Moscow university
Although the academic year begins on September 1, students of Russia's premier academic institution may not be allowed to enter their main building because it has breached more than 100 fire-safety...
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Jilted wives group taking off
A support group to help the wives of philandering academics and to press for tighter rules on staff/student relationships has met "widespread interest" in the few weeks since its birth, its founder...
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Education shake-up promised
Ministers have promised a fundamental shake-up of the educational research establishment after the publication of the second damning evaluation of the sector's scholarship in a month. Public money is...
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Grovelling and servitude on the PhD road
Postgraduate study costs more than mere money and time. As Amanda Callaghan explains, the price exacted can also include 20 hours a week as a restaurant lackey. IN THE depths of last winter I had a...