Heartfelt inequality
ETHNIC minority people with heart problems have poorer access to treatment than other heart patients, according to research published this month. By comparing death rates and access to cardiac...
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Worms and learning
A study at Edinburgh University of how parasitic infection affects the learning ability of rats and mice could have big implications for children in developing countries suffering from parasitic worm...
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Stereotype addiction
Despite increased knowledge about drugs, police still stereotype users, says new research from Bradford University. Bruce Cohen has looked at police attitudes towards drug users and concludes that...
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Contest nurses scientist tycoons
Teams from 25 universities have entered a competition to develop the entrepreneurial spirit of young scientists. The competition is part of an initiative led by the Biotechnology and Biological...
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UCL unit to tackle big killers
University College London is creating a Pounds 10 million biomedical research centre to look into ways of treating and preventing heart attacks, strokes and cancer. Funding for the centre is being...
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Institutes' research pays
Government-funded research institutes provide equivalent, if not better, value for money than universities, according to the chief executive of the Natural Environment Research Council. John Krebs...
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Pesticide advice plea
DISTINGUISHED academics advising the Government on the licensing and use of pesticides may not be providing impartial advice, the House of Lords has been told. In a debate on organo-phosphates, the...
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Pill giants look to new patients
The emerging markets of China, India and Brazil will play a crucial role in setting the agenda for pharmaceutical firms worldwide, according to Richard Sykes, chairman and chief executive of Glaxo...
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Conflict looms over EU mobility
The Government is set to become embroiled in further tough debates over European mobility in education, training and research. At last week's council of education ministers in Luxembourg, a European...
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Dreaming spires face minaret eclipse
CRITICS of a multi-million pound building planned for the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies want it to find a new site - perhaps facing the controversial new business school next to Oxford station....
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Allegre to slim the mammoth
Claude Allegre, France's new education minister, plans to "slim down the mammoth" of state education by introducing administrative reforms which would decentralise management of the system. But he...
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Paris Nord University and the Galile Institute
* The Paris Nord University and the Galile Institute have decided to present the theses of two students killed in a bomb attack on a Paris underground train last December. The two Moroccans had been...
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College paintings were stolen 'to order'
Polish police are hunting thieves who stole eight portraits from Wroclaw University's famous baroque Leopoldine Hall, writes Vera Rich. The police believe the robbery was commissioned by a collector...
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Mean test hits poor applicants
Increasing numbers of poorer young Australians are likely to be deterred from going on to university because of increased fees and a federal government decision to tighten eligibility requirements...
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Job victory for disabled woman
A disabled woman has won her fight to become a temporary lecturer at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. A staff selection board which had cast doubt on her ability to cope with teaching has now...