César Milstein
It is not an exaggeration to describe César Milstein's contribution to science and medicine as the most important immunological advance of the century. His discovery of the method to produce...
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'Foul city' had green lungs
In the 1860s, John Ruskin wrote: "That great foul city of London - rattling, growling, smoking, stinking - ghastly heap of fermenting brickwork, pouring out poison at every pore..." But the image of...
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Misery for hay fever sufferers
The future may spring a nasty surprise on hay fever sufferers and create ecological havoc in the plant world, writes Steve Farrar. Scientists have found evidence that rising concentrations of carbon...
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MPs told science is a poor option
Young scientists have told the House of Commons science and technology select committee how low salaries, lasting student debts and a poor public image of science are turning them off academic...
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Project to bring ideas out of lab
Researchers in medical diagnostics have a new organisation to help them exploit their research and bring it to patients. Diagnox, an Oxford-based project, has received a £400,000 biotechnology...
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Court battle over postgrads
Germany will have to defend restrictions imposed by some of its regions on foreign postgraduate exchange students before the European Court of Justice. The European Commission said the German federal...
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Finns plan overhaul of funding
Finland is considering an overhaul of the way polytechnics are funded, with a shift away from student numbers as the sole criterion. A working group has proposed that only 61 per cent of the funding...
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Irish look to widen grading bands
Four of the Irish republic's seven universities are likely to introduce a new marking scheme after a study showed that Irish students were marked harder than their counterparts in the United Kingdom...
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Quality concern in European education area
The head of France's university quality body has said that Europe's proposed higher education area cannot operate effectively without an agreed evaluation system. National governments must develop...
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Swiss strike to challenge cuts
Nearly 6,000 people took to the streets of Berne this month as the city's university student union led a strike by teachers, lecturers and public servants to protest against the most severe cuts to...
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Australia rakes in foreign cash
More than 200,000 foreign students are expected to enrol in Australian education institutions this year, boosting the economy by A$4.12 billion (£1.5 billion). Onshore university campuses are likely...
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Canadian trawl fishes for facts
Academics will soon be able to go through archival material as easily as surfing the internet thanks to a Canadian portal being developed. A C$6.7 million (£2.96 million) project called the Text...
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Recession takes huge chunk out of budgets
The recession in the United States may be easing, but it is taking a drastic bite out of public university budgets - even as enrolment continues to increase. Tax revenues are sagging in the wake of a...
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Don's Diary: Lights, cameras...equality
Sunday D-Day minus one. Tomorrow filming starts on our equality and diversity training video aimed at managers in higher education. Have I forgotten anything? Actors? Crew? Intravenous caffeine? I...
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In the news: Tim O'Shea
Tim O'Shea, master of London's Birkbeck College, will be back on an old stamping ground when he becomes principal of the University of Edinburgh in October, succeeding Lord Sutherland. Professor O'...