Next week sees the first Nesta fellowships -no-strings-attached grants for people with good ideas but too little time to pursue them. Anne Sebba offers an exclusive preview. The United Kingdom may...
David Wilson (below) is striving to give 'jailbirds' a voice through his research into prison study and by righting miscarriages of justice. Claire Sanders talks to the one-time prison governor It...
Research into prion proteins suggests how the spongiform encephalopathies, such as BSE, become pathogenic One beneficial outcome of the BSE saga has been the re-emergence of interest in the...
Scandal over falsified breast cancer trial results has led to new ethical guidelines for researchers. Karen MacGregor reports from Durban South Africa is to monitor medical research more carefully to...
The new James Cook medical school in Northern Queensland is bringingdoctors to under-represented regions and focusing on the health problems of its Aboriginal population. Julia Hinde reports from...
The puffin has been revealed as one of the master builders of the bird world. Research in Shetland by a team from the Institute for Oceanography in Kiel, Germany, has found burrows dug by the seabird...
The meteorite that punctuated the age of the dinosaurs would have transformed a vast region of the Yucatan Peninsula into a seething fluid of pulverised rock, computer simulations have suggested....
(Photograph) - John Preston, official glass-blower at the University of East Anglia, is to retire in 2002 and the search is on to find his successor. He is looking for an experienced person to train...
The University of Abertay, Dundee's links with China appear to be raising more questions than they answer. Stewart Howe of the university's business school has gone to an international education fair...
Geographer Ian Cook is studying the impact of changing western eating habits on Third World communities. He spoke to Wendy Barnaby Dinner at the Bamboula Jerk Kitchen comes with small containers of...
Education and health chiefs in Birmingham have urged ministers to consider a scheme for universities and colleges to retrain up to 2,000 Longbridge workers as "paraprofessionals" in schools and...
City University is struggling to recruit men onto its postgraduate diploma in broadcast journalism. So far, only one place has been offered to a male applicant, who deferred his place from last year...
The use of antibiotics as growth promoters in animals is being made a scapegoat for the rise of the superbug, a survey of leading medical microbiologists has suggested. The survey of the opinions of...
Funding chiefs claimed this week that further education will soon be back on target for recruiting more students, writes Tony Tysome. This is despite numbers falling for two consecutive years. The...
New Labour is not as new as it is painted, according to Exeter University historian Andrew Thorpe, writes Olga Wojtas. Senior lecturer Dr Thorpe, speaking at the conference "New Labour, New...