Wrecker asteroids
Julia Hinde at the Geoscience 98 conference at Keele University At least 16 asteroids - each more than 250 km in diameter - may have collided with the early Earth, each wiping out all but the most...
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Activity slows on volcano island
Julia Hinde at the Geoscience 98 conference at Keele University Volcanic activity on the tiny Caribbean island of Montserrat is showing the first signs of dying down, say British scientists who have...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistic Agency's findings for 1996/97 reveal that: * 110,500 students obtained postgraduate qualifications, an increase of 5 per cent over 1995/96 * Of these, 88 per cent sat...
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Hands on
(Photograph) - Hands on: Carol Horn, a student at Plymouth College of Further Education, has been nominated for a national adult learners award. The virtually blind black belt in Aikido recently took...
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It's you
(Photograph) - It's you: Curator Carolyn Brown of the University of Wales Egypt Centre, with a replica head of Nefertiti. The original dates from 1352 to 1336bc. The centre won a Pounds 414,000...
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Cagey ways
(Photograph) - Cagey ways: Andy Marshall, a third-year zoology student from Cardiff University, spent a week locked in a former orang-utan cage at Paignton Zoo in Devon to raise Pounds 3,000 to fund...
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Scots to purge perks
THE National Audit Office has urged Scottish universities to clamp down on misconduct following evidence of "wrong-doing, irregularities and control weaknesses" at Glasgow Caledonian University. A...
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Origins as important as A levels
UNIVERSITIES should take account of where applicants have been to school and not just the qualifications they have achieved, higher education minister Tessa Blackstone said last week. Speaking to...
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Arts research council on way
THE FIRST step towards a research council for the arts was taken this week with the announcement of an Arts and Humanities Research Board. Money from the Higher Education Funding Council for England...
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Duke in battle of lights
Cambridge University chancellor, Prince Philip, has been called on to settle a five-year battle over plans to erect floodlights near the Institute of Astronomy, which scientists say will harm...
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In-house editor suspended
The editor of Middlesex University's in-house newspaper, billed as "the free voice of the university", has been suspended after a row over free speech, writes Phil Baty. Unison, the union...
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Council bypassed in Cambridge row
More than 70 academics at Cambridge University have rallied to usurp the governing council and try to end the dispute over "secretive and unfair" appointment procedures, writes Phil Baty. In an...
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Oxford trumpets science success
Oxford University has published a booklet to dispel its arts-bias image and highlight its science success. In the introduction, vice-chancellor Sir Colin Lucas, says: "Oxford is sometimes unfairly...
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Lottery awards to universities
The National Lottery has made awards worth Pounds 76 million to higher education projects. The THES lists winners to date, examines how grants have been won and looks at the overseas experience (In...
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Exhaust blow
(Photograph) - Exhaust blow: Cars fitted with catalytic converters to cut emissions of harmful gases may be polluting the environment with metals, say researchers from the University of Wales at...