Child leukaemia and infections link examined
EDINBURGH University's public health sciences department is studying the causes of childhood leukaemia. The project will analyse data on diagnosed cases of leukaemia in the hopeof better...
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Jadwiga: patron saint of the university
"The road to the well-being of a state, to its sovereignty and recognition in the world leads through its universities," Pope John Paul II said when, in the final ceremony of his visit to Poland this...
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Long loan allows free ranging
A book borrowed from the library at Harvard University and believed lost has been returned to the stacks - 233 years overdue. The thick, calfskin-covered volume appears to have crossed the Atlantic...
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Military types get cultural grounding
A college in St Petersburg is playing a key role in ensuring that the arms reduction agreements Europe made after the cold war are observed. Rusistika Plus, an independent Russian language school...
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Awards aim to go the distance
The Italian government has launched legislation to create 60,000 means-linked scholarships over the next three years, bringing the total to 120,000. They will add to the existing system of fee...
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'Accidental' shooter on campus
A 30-year-old research assistant at Rome's La Sapienza University, Giovanni Scattone, is being held by police on suspicion of having shot and killed Marta Russo, a 22-year-old law student, as she...
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A scam for art's sake
There is a scam lying at the heart of academe. It implicates many of those involved in university life and threatens to subvert our ideas about the nature of scholarly activity. Almost nobody talks...
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Crystal clear
David Crystal, reviewing The Origin of Language (THES, June 6), complains that I fail to give the sources for extracts from Trench, Muller, Farrar and Charles Darwin. This information is supplied in...
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Bristol in dinosaur bone tussle
Moscow. An international dispute is raging between Russia's leading dinosaur research institute and Bristol University over 30 kilograms of 150 million-year-old fossilised pterodactyl bones. The...
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Cooking up a new discipline
The media - or is it the public? - is obsessed with food and eating. Chefs are television celebrities. Restaurant reviews, diets, recipes, and killer-bug scares - listeria, salmonella, BSE, . -...
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Funding is the only issue that matters
The Dearing committee of inquiry into higher education is nearing the end of its work. As the committee struggles to agree its final report it is as well to remember why it was set up. In February...
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Curbs needed on rule of fear
Ignoring financial realities can have disastrous consequences for institutions. Gerald Vinten suggests a system of checks and balances for those at the top. Extreme situations are now taking on a...
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Service comes careering bang up-to-date
Employability and career success are what everybody expects from higher education. Tony Watts outlines the role university careers services have to play. The Dearing report seems likely to put...
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Bad for business
Watching the Oxford University management school sideshow (THES, June 6) 1 feel moved to throw a cushion from the cheap seats at Brookes. Brookes business school got a research rating of one, because...
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Greenwich move stalls
GREENWICH University may cancel its planned move into the Royal Naval College buildings following an apparent shift in the tenancy offer. The university says it will pull out of the Greenwich college...