Sex rules attitudes to school
SECONDARY school girls are more career-minded and more likely to be planning to go on to higher education than boys, new research suggests. They spend more time on homework and less time watching...
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Aspirin on trial
A trial into the effects of aspirin on people at risk from heart disease or strokes is under way in Lanarkshire, which has the highest death rate from heart disease in Scotland. Edinburgh University'...
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Pipers call the tune
PHYSICISTS at Edinburgh University are working to improve the quality of mass-produced musical wind instruments to make British manufacturers more competitive. Backed by the Engineering and Physical...
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Hunt for cereal killer
THE SEARCH for genes that make cereals and grasses resistant to diseases is under way at the John Innes Centre in Norwich as part of a Pounds 1.5 million European project. The JIC team will compare...
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$7.75m help for Asians
An American family foundation has stepped forward to bankroll a multi-million dollar emergency loan programme to help Asian students through their countries' economic crises. The Freeman Foundation,...
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Campus protests at backing for general
Nigerian students have defied a "shoot-to-kill" warning from police and protested at the support of the country's five registered political parties for General Sani Abacha as the sole presidential...
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On your marks as computer takes over
PROFESSORS at two United States universities say after ten years of research they have perfected technology that can accurately evaluate student essays. The Intelligent Essay Assessor uses...
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No chances
City University professor Norman Fenton and two colleagues have started a consultancy company specialising in risk management for business-critical and safety-critical systems. Agena helps clients to...
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Finance close to heart of drug research
MEDICAL researchers in Canada have found a strong association with authors' published positions on the safety of a specific drug and their financial relationships with pharmaceutical manufacturers. A...
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Engineers claim Italy broke rule on jobs
ITALY is once again incurring European wrath over its recalcitrance in offering jobs to engineers qualified in other EU countries within the four months' time limit laid down in EU rules. Two German...
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Lectures
Birkbeck College. University of London The following professorial lectures have been arranged: May 13 at 6pm in the Harkness Hall, Douglas Dunn of the University of St Andrews, "Reaching down for...
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Chairs
University of Wales, Cardiff Ian Hargreaves, editor of the New Statesman, has been appointed professor of journalism. He was previously editor of The Independent (1994-96), deputy editor of The...
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French students press for grants
France's national student union says its members are ready to strike unless the government changes the funding system for students by June. UNEF-IF president Pouria Amirshahi told the daily newspaper...
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Big screen breaks
Communications students at Hungarian universities are being encouraged by the head of state educational television to make films and documentaries to challenge the conservatism of modern broadcasting...
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Fees bill hits deadlock
Attempts to resolve the dispute over the adoption of tuition fees in Germany's Higher Education Framework Act appear to have failed. Both ruling coalition and opposition politicians now claim that a...