D.i.v.o.r.c.e.?
Children of divorced parents do not necessarily turn into maladjusted monsters, Christy Buchanan found Susan divorced two years ago. She has two sons. There have been rough times, but they have coped...
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Task force
Edward awler and David Finegold report on changing skills needs in the workplace The level of competition in global business demands organisations perform ever better. In the 1990s we are fascinated...
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Charity that begins at home ends in the lab
Universities get 20 per cent of their income from charitable organisations, writes Diana Garnham It is estimated that more than 1,000 charitable organisations support some medical research in the...
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Healthy liaisons with the drug barons
Frank Wells on the relationship between university research and pharmaceutical companies There has never been a more important time for industry and academia to be working together. Industry needs...
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Century of heroes in clime of cholera
THE WELLCOME TRUST ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF TROPICAL DISEASES Edited by F. E. G. Cox Wellcome Trust, 452pp, Pounds 35.00 ISBN - 1869835 86 7 As a scientific speciality, tropical medicine is barely 100...
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War on 'superbugs'
Ian Chopra on developments at Leeds's Antimicrobial Research Centre Before the introduction of antibiotics in the 1940s many people died from bacterial infections. The advent of antibiotics...
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Phil Redmond
(Photograph) - Head start: Phil Redmond, creator of TV soap Brookside and honorary professor at Liverpool John Moores University was the first viewer of the Web site promoting JMU's Millennium...
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Ulster apologies
The Thes January 3 issue reported that Queen's University received top ratings in the research assessment exercise for its research on cancer, ageing and diet. It is in fact the University of Ulster...
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Cornwall delayed
Exeter University's bid to build a Cornwall campus at Trereife, Penzance, has hit a hitch. The Millennium Commission has deferred a decision on a Pounds 35 million grant for a second time pending a...
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Students suffer technostress
Computers are supposed to be time-saving devices that make life easier and more convenient. But an American psychology professor contends that on about a quarter of university and college students...
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Leeds leads
An Edwardian listed building has been transformed into a Pounds 4.5 million high-tech library for Leeds Metropolitan University students. The Beckett Park Learning Centre housed within the campus's...
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Northern lights
University College Suffolk has linked with the most northerly campus in the world, Tromso in Norway, to develop research into distance education, particularly teacher training by email and...
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Better by design
Coventry University has won Pounds 30,000 funding from the Department for Education and Employment under its Discipline Network scheme to establish a national network in Information Design linking...
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De Montfort refashions Soviet satellites
University leaders in St Petersburg are working with a British university to improve the city's academic communications by using spare capacity on old Soviet military satellites. The Pounds 72,000...
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IT benefits 'may not save cash'
Information technology can enhance education but does not always save money, vice chancellors and other policy-makers will be told at a meeting in London on January 22. The decision-makers will hear...