Cutting edge
A team of scientists in Birmingham is using gene therapy to target cells and treat inherited disorders and killer diseases. Gene therapy is a new therapeutic approach that offers great promise for...
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Listening to the river
The Medical Research Council's Max Perutz Essay Prize 2000 attracted 39 entries from young scientists eager to explain their work to a wide audience.The competition, held to encourage and recognise...
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Spotty fish may hold man's key
Jane Marshall concludes our focus on France with reports on the genome project mapping project. A garden weed, a small spotted fish and the number 14 have something in common: they are vital...
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Jerusalem
Arab students demonstrated against the government last week at the Hebrew University and at Tel Aviv and Ben-Gurion universities, in sympathy with their colleagues at Haifa University, who have been...
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Athens
Greece's new education secretary, Petros Efthymiou, has called on the academic community to enter an open dialogue to find solutions for the problems besetting Greek higher education.
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Padua
The university of Padua is leading Italy's universities in an online project, Thesis, aimed at eliminating plagiarism of theses by both students and professors. The universities of Bologna, Siena,...
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Stone wall
(Photograph) - Bolivian university students armed with slingshots clash with police in La Paz in five days of protests that led to the declaration of a state of emergency and suspension of...
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Scrutiny agency bullishly defended
The universities' quality watchdog has mounted a robust defence of the Quality Assurance Agency, telling MPs that the agency's critics are mostly "elitists", writes Phil Baty. In a pre-emptive strike...
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Student shortage leads to job cuts
Napier University fears it will lose up to Pounds 3 million in the coming year because of problems in student recruitment and retention, writes Olga Wojtas. It is aiming to shed 55 of its 1,800 posts...
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Greased lightning
(Photograph) - Students and staff at Glasgow Caledonian University are developing a biodiesel car that runs on sunflower oil, or even chip shop oil. They displayed a working model at the Edinburgh...
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Don's Diary
Monday Wake up in state of disorientation in the Transylvanian town of Sibiu. Turn over and rumple Terry Eagleton's Illusions of Postmodernism, which appears to have served as a pillow. Join Mark...
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Buenos Aires
Argentina's national deaf-mutes' association has opened the country's first school of Argentinian sign language in Buenos Aires, the Jose Antonio Terry institute.
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Labour is off-target on FE
The government's further education policy faced failure this week when it emerged that student numbers are set to fall for a second year running, after 20 years of growth. Despite ministers' plans to...
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Ethics code for student advisers
A strict code of ethics for international student advisers has been drafted amid concern that United Kingdom universities are exploiting fee-paying overseas students. Ukcosa, the UK Council for...
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Draft rules set to complete QAA's code of practice
The last nine quality control rules of a list of more than 150 that universities will have to adhere to have been set down by the Quality Assurance Agency, writes Phil Baty. The QAA's code of...