Grants
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM Charities Drs K. Kane, G. Williams and Professor M. Langman, Pounds 24,974 from STFUBHT (molecular characterisations of 1,25-dihydroxy vitamin D action in the colon); Dr P....
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF KENT AT CANTERBURY DCL: Rosemary Leigh-Pemberton, former president of the Kent branch of the Red Cross, president of Kent Council on Addiction, deputy chairman of Caldecott Community...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an author who trained as a doctor and, in this instance, was inspired by an artist: "A quotation from the Bible came to my lips, but I held by tongue, for I know...
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Speaking Volumes: A History of English Literature
K. K. AZIZ on E. Legouis and L. Cazamian's A History of English Literature . What a series of coincidences! A History of English Literature by Emile Legouis (1861-1937) and Louis Cazamian (1877-1965...
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Dead Clever
Chapter 7. Next morning Henry rose early, feeling rested but hot. He got out of bed and looked at himself in the wardrobe mirror. He was a bit stiff, but that was normal for the morning. He compared...
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Old killers resisting arrest
Diseases last common in the 19th century have returned with an added danger - the prospect of an antibiotic- resistant super bug. Simon Midgley reports Until very recently, antibiotics appeared to...
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Quality council's role reviewed after access U-turn
A policy U-turn by the Higher Education Quality Council has heralded a review of its responsibilities across the further/higher education divide. The council will not now abandon its role in national...
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Imperial gets Welsh deal
Imperial College, London stands to benefit from last week's decision by Korean conglomerate LG Group to invest Pounds 1.7 billion in two state-of-the-art microelectronics facilities in south Wales....
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Anti-fungal fight shows its teeth
A little-known group of opportunistic invaders is on the rampage in the UK, preying on the weak and sick and killing an unknown number of them every year. The victims are the immunocompromised - Aids...
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. . . love 'em . . .
Another way in which the employment of graduates is changing is by the upgrading of new professions to graduate status. Aconspicuous example is nursing, where the process of absorbing a once separate...
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A degree of power
I write to correct a small but important error in a news report (THES, July 5) containing the phrase "the Higher Education Quality Council's granting of degree awarding powers". HEQC does not grant...
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A Godless creed
Can one be religious and not believe in God? Gail Vines talks to the members of a movement who see no contradiction I am not a believer in the sense of believing in God the Father or Jesus Christ as...
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Eat bugs and live longer
Swallowing live bacteria could be the key to fighting antibiotic resistance, scientists were told at a meeting to discuss the realisation that a crucial step in the development of antibiotic...
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Feet students dig in heels
Westminster University's student union is backing claims for costs from 14 mature students who, having accepted places at the university's division of podiatric medicine this autumn, have been told...
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Senior managers quit
Two senior managers at a Roman Catholic college are to step down, just a week after publication of a damning inspection report, writes Harriet Swain. De La Salle College principal John McDermott has...