Sainsbury seeks public view on bioscience
A public consultation on the biosciences was launched this week by the science minister Lord Sainsbury. "This exercise will help us identify issues that interest people and the information they wish...
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Opposition to introduction of biotechnology
* The opposition of "green" movements to the widespread introduction of biotechnology could be "disastrous" for food safety and for the environment, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and...
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Glorious mud
(Photograph) - Steve Rowland, professor of organic geochemistry at the University of Plymouth's department of environmental sciences, examines mud scooped from the river Tamar. Professor Rowland has...
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Paisley gets limekiln from equipment handout
More than 50 universities will benefit from 240 awards announced this week in the latest round of the Government's Joint Research Equipment Initiative, writes Julia Hinde. The annual awards started...
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Pounds 8 million boost announced for Genome Valley initiative
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council has earmarked Pounds 8 million to speed up the commercial exploitation of genetic research. The money will go towards special equipment,...
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Foresight future is unveiled
The blueprint for the next round of the government's Foresight programme, which aims to encourage industry, academia and government to identify research needs and market opportunities and threats for...
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World watch
Students at the Pedagogical Academy in Vienna have discovered that compulsory health examinations carried out at the start of the semester included tests for drug-taking without their knowledge....
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Foresight group remit
* The remit of the ministerial Foresight group has been expanded to ensure science, engineering and technology are taken into account when developing policy across all government departments. The new...
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Record levels of racism prompt Scottish initiative
Only 1.3 per cent of the Scottish population are ethnic minorities, compared with 5.5 per cent for the UKas a whole. This smaller proportion, coupled with the absence of serious race riots, leads...
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Employers target minorities
Graduate employers are targeting recruitment at universities with a high proportion of ethnic minority students. And this positive discrimination is based on "hard commercial return value", not...
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MP urges colleges to boost local economy
Universities should do more for their local communities rather than concentrating all their efforts on boosting their national and international profiles, a government minister has told MPs. Lifelong...
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Oxford raises its state-school intake
More state-school pupils applied to Oxford University this year and more were accepted, according to figures released this week. But although the gap is narrowing, they remain in the minority at just...
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Development of teaching needs better management
Has the student experience improved as a result of the new emphasis on university teaching and attempts to link funding to classroom excellence? Over the past three years there has been much talk...
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HEFCE may reject foreign ingredients for funding recipe
The international standing of subjects is unlikely to be used as a basis for allocating research cash from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. HEFCE research funding is also unlikely to...
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Normans not the norm
Give a child a bad name and they do better at university, new research suggests. Research by Phil Erwin, of Nene College of Higher Education, has found students with unattractive first names do...