In the news: Anthony McClaran
Anthony McClaran, acting chief executive of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, faces a test of his own this week. Not only is he experiencing his first results day in charge, but...
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Practice imperfect
How should scientific results be made public? Patrick Bateson launches a Royal Society probe Last week's intense media coverage about the risks of breast cancer associated with hormone replacement...
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Access scheme highlights need to target 16-year-olds
Influencing decisions made at 16, at the point where education ceases to be compulsory, is key to widening participation, says the first long-term study into the results of an access scheme. Maggie...
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Social class still counts after students reach 21
Why does Labour focus its access efforts on 18-year-olds when postgrad inequality is rife? asks Paul Wakeling We are not being told the whole story in the great widening participation debate. Welcome...
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Harry Kroto
Creating a culture of sustainability should be at the top of the agenda if we are going to win the war for human survival I am a champion of science, engineering and technology (Set) and how much...
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Students' storeys of woe
Who says students are getting soft? The following string of complaints recently landed on the Whistleblower's desk. Students at Westminster University are furious that their central London rooms on...
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Research record-breakers
The Diary offers its congratulations to biologists at Dundee University who, according to the Institute for Scientific Information in Philadelphia, have won more citations for their papers than...
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More cases of bodily harm
Not to be outdone by Dundee University, the University of Cambridge - which normally tops the league tables - has repeated the feat in its latest set of performance indicators. These show that last...
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Wild about melon
Scientists at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem have developed a product you never knew you needed: the reduced-calorie watermelon. While watermelon is traditionally seen as diet friendly, the...
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Don's diary: From Russia, with irony
Friday Sheremetyevo airport, Moscow. Although my host and I have never met, and he is not carrying a little placard and I am not wearing a red rose, he heads straight for me. Later I figure out why:...
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Work-life deal attacked for snubbing parents
Lecturers' leaders have rounded on employers for celebrating a breakthrough on improving academics' work-life balance while ignoring their claims for better maternity rights. The Joint Negotiating...
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Scottish medical schools win £1.8m
A bid by Scotland's medical schools to help combat cancer, heart disease, stroke and mental illness is to put Scotland at the forefront of international genetic research. The project, Genetic Health...
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Why I believe it's time to devise new ways of categorising modern scholars
None of the schemes traditionally used to divide up scholars makes sense. The borders between cognate disciplines have dissolved, the divide between the "two cultures" collapsed and hybrid fields...
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European scientists make breakthrough in nuclear waste disposal
Brussels, 14 Aug 2003 A consortium of UK and German researchers has successfully transformed the radioactive isotope Iodine-129, a major waste product from nuclear power generation, into the safer...
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FP6 energy and transport information day
Brussels, 14 Aug 2003 The European Commission's Energy and Transport DG will hold an information day on the ongoing calls for proposals under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) in the fields of...