Just about every measure of library activity at the British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of Economics shows expansion. Librarian Jean Sykes believes this reflects...
British scientists are behind an international rescue bid to return a flowering hardwood tree, now extinct in the wild, to its native Pacific home of Easter Island. The toromiro tree, Sophora...
An innovative two-pronged attack to prevent the progress of rheumatoid arthritis is being pioneered by scientists at the University of Leeds. In rheumatoid arthritis the body's immune system attacks...
Soaring publication prices hit university libraries just when they were getting to grips with greater student demand and the information revolution. Kam Patel asks if they can rise to the challenges...
Species are becoming extinct faster than they can be described but, alarmingly, fewer and fewer students are studying systematic biology, a report says. Published this week, The Web of Life, a new...
Young scientists - even the most brilliant - find it difficult to get a foot on the research funding ladder, Save British Science told science minister Lord Sainsbury this week, writes Julia Hinde....
The University of Oxford has launched two more spin-off companies, bringing the total to four this year. The latest companies are developing a new form of computer tool and a new class of medical...
Particle physicists and astronomers are drawing up plans for coping with a static budget following a disappointing allocation of funds as part of the comprehensive spending review, writes Alison...
* The number of PhD students funded by PPARC is likely to be increased by 10 per cent to 20 per cent by 2000, depending on a vote taken at today's PPARC council meeting. PPARC also has plans to...
Oxford dons are resisting moves to erode the traditional autonomy of the university's colleges through increased centralisation. Oxford's Congregation debated proposals this week to reform and...
Novelists Celia Brayfield and Carmen Callil have gone public this week with their proposal to set up Britain's first National Academy of Writing with lottery backing. The academy will mirror the...
Literary agents Curtis Brown Ltd will offer a Pounds 1,000 prize for the best novel written by a student on the MA programme in novel writing run by the University of Manchester. The prize will go to...
Private higher education colleges are being forced to pay more for the right to photocopy books and journals than their public sector counterparts. The Council of Independent Colleges and Research...
At least three Oxford University students staked their academic futures in protest at the introduction of tuition fees this week. Two Balliol College undergraduates faced suspension as The THES went...
There is little public support for cloning for reproductive purposes, claims a report by the Wellcome Trust. The study, Public Perspectives on Human Cloning, found that even groups that might be...