Talks 'excluded' Irish communities
THE HISTORIC handshake between prime minister Tony Blair and Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has been followed by the launch of an academic book on the peace process. The book is edited by Chris...
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Oddities of life on the benches
CHRONIC overcrowding, allegations of crudely sexist behaviour, public assumptions that you have absurdly long holidays. It would be easy to assume that academics who become Members of Parliament will...
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Bangor launch
THE University of Wales Bangor this week launched its Institute of Medical and Social Care Research, which is likely to coordinate Bangor's dementia action research programme, writes Iola Smith. The...
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... Many happy returns
"I NEVER had ambitions to be a bureaucrat," says the outgoing head of PPARC, Ken Pounds. After four years as the council's first chief executive, Professor Pounds says he is quite happy to be...
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Roving fellows, courtesy of The THES
COMMONWEALTH SINCE The Times Higher Education Supplement Exchange Fellowship was launched in the early 1970s, 24 Commonwealth academics have been supported to pursue their research in another...
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Labour's chance to shine on world stage
COMMONWEALTH Prime minister Tony Blair hosts the first Commonwealth summit in Britain for 20 years in Edinburgh this weekend COMMONWEALTH leaders meeting in Edinburgh this weekend are unlikely to...
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Wellcome appoints northern light
THE new director of the Wellcome Trust does not seem that certain about coming to London. He will miss his research and the northern pubs where he likes to listen to folk music and play in the...
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Ruthlessly ready for PPARC lifeI
AFTER three decades at the sharp end of theoretical physics research, Ian Halliday, head of physics at the University of Wales, Swansea, will swap his laboratory for the board room in April, when he...
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Biological boost
BRITAIN's biological scientists have gained a new voice with the creation of the UK Life Sciences Committee (UKLSC). The committee, formed by 12 societies representing 30,000 scientists working in...
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Medicine takes fast track
A REVOLUTION in British medical education could be just around the corner as plans to introduce three and four-year accelerated medical degrees go ahead. The Medical Workforce Standing Advisory...
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Watchdog will have healthy teeth
THE government's proposed Food Standards Agency is likely to be given a major role in nutrition, including responsibility for monitoring the nutritional content of food and defining a healthy diet....
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Fears grow over rising mercury levels in fish
Research into seabird feathers has revealed that mercury pollution is increasing most quickly in deep-sea food chains, raising concerns about using deep-sea fish stocks for human food. Bob Furness of...
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Public weighs up murder on scales of justice
MERCY killings are seen as less serious than murders of self-defence, and a burglar who kills a woman in panic is viewed more harshly than someone who murders a battering spouse, according to a...
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Study probes how technology invades privacy
A STUDY into the way technology at work can affect privacy has received Pounds 166,000 from the Economic and Social Research Council. David Mason, professor of sociology at the University of Plymouth...
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Mathematical models developed at Brunel University
* Mathematical models developed at Brunel University are paving the way for the development of roads that absorb noise pollution from traffic, writes Alan Thomson . Simon Chandler-Wilde and his team...