Glasgow reveals Irn constitution
The stiff upper lip has achieved particular rigidity in Glasgow, according to a United States researcher investigating the health beliefs of different ethnic groups. Carolyn Fong, professor of...
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Taxing tasks for static cabbies
A student at Universite Laval is completing a study on the occupational hazards faced by taxi drivers. Cedric Plante, a masters student in the department of community health at the Quebec university...
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Wolf is in the art studio
The painful results of the years of high inflation have been affecting academic institutions for some time. The backlog of those years of the nation's financial imbalance has now arrived with a...
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Quality chiefs prefer secrecy
Reports on universities' and colleges' quality assurance arrangements should not be made public and institutions should set their own standards, quality chiefs have proposed. The results of...
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Eyeopener
In the first of a series in which academics and filmmakers discuss their favourite film, Anita Desai savours the powerfully visceral impact of Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali. I have never met anyone...
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Victory of coalition heralds end of annual quaily round
The standards ball Labor set rolling in 1992 failed to reach its target but rocked university complacency on its way, claims Don Aitkin. The Australian government is for the first time considering...
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Rabbit power
Nigel Wace has invented the world's first "hunger-driven" lawnmower. Powered by rabbits Flotsam and Jetsam, the machine rolls across lawns while its inmates nibble and fertilise. Dr Wace and his two...
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Planet Hollywood
Cinema may have been invented by the French but its first century has been dominated by Americans. Huw Richards looks at the world's love affair with the magic from Hollywood. A humorist, as so often...
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Passport to the world
In the relative quiet that seems to permeate the three rural campuses of Charles Sturt University, it is difficult to imagine the turmoil that surrounded this young institution's launch into the...
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Chairs
CITY UNIVERSITY, LONDON Geoff Meads, former chief executive of Cambridgeshire Family Health Service Authority and director of primary and community care in Wessex, professor of health services...
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Facelift for Australian gothic
Traditionalist University of Sydney is sprucing up its image for the market, Susannah Smith writes. From the picturesque, gothic buildings at the University of Sydney's main campus, the sounds of...
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Grants
IMPERIAL COLLEGE, LONDON Charities Dr P. Sugden, Pounds 118,769 from the British Heart Foundation (regulation of stress-activated subfamilies of the mitogen-activated protein kinase family and their...
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Double take
(Photograph) - Double take: Natasha Richardson opens a digital media studio at Bradford University in honour of her father, the late Tony Richardson, who was brought up above a chemists in the town....
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What the HECS of a success
Student loans injected a dose of financial reality into Australian universities. Geoff Maslen Australia's university students enjoy a system of financial support through government allowances and...
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Promotions
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM Readerships have been conferred on the following. Senior research fellows: Monty Charles, reader in radiation physics; Christine MacArthur, reader in maternal and child...