Cancer cure hope
The possibility of curing cancer is no longer a pipe dream according to Dundee University researcher David Lane. Professor Lane has won international recognition for discovering the tumour suppressor...
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Bridge builders
The number of women studying architecture has risen from 26 per cent of the total last year to 31 per cent for 1995/96, according to the Royal Institute of British Architects. There were 2,315...
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Cash for Hunter
The Government has pledged cash support for a new computer system designed to identify bogus grant applications. Eric Forth, the higher education minister, announced a Pounds 70,000 grant towards...
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Top-up fees on agenda
Birmingham University's response to the cuts could include the imposition of a top-up fee on first-year students from 1997/98. Gill Allcutt, director of finance, last week informed finance directors...
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Bannister bullish about sports scholarships
Sir Roger Bannister is confident that money needed for the sports scholarship scheme he recommended this week will be made available. The Report of the Working Group of University Sports Scholarships...
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Audit blasts institute's foreign links
The Higher Education Quality Council is highly critical of Southampton Institute of Higher Education's overseas links in its audit report published this week. It was due to be discussed by governors...
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Scots talks on cash
Scottish institutions are to have a say on which funding reforms could give them greater room for manoeuvre. The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council wants their opinion and is asking them...
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Online business service aims for global reach
An online business information service that links to around 6,000 sources has been launched by News International, owners of the Times Supplements, and DataTimes corporation. The THES will shortly...
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Net video comes of age
Students and tutors, employers and interviewees, manufacturers and their academic customers are talking face to face regardless of distance, as higher education begins to find real uses for the long-...
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Don's Diary
SUNDAY. The devastating impact of last year's Budget on university finance has intensified my own institution's clamour for outside funding. Every cloud has a silver lining, and as a result I now...
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Chairs
THE ROYAL SOCIETY. The following research professorships have been appointed: Gerard Evan, principal scientist and head of biochemistry of the cell nucleus laboratory at the Imperial Cancer Research...
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Not drowning. . .
Your whole academic life flashes past you: the successes, the failures, the good marks and the bad. Soon this will be an everyday experience for students at the University of North London, where...
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Get the bug, get a buzz,Books
INSECTS THROUGH THE SEASONS, By Gilbert Waldbauer, Harvard University Press, 289pp, Pounds 15.95, ISBN 0 674 45488 X. THE WISDOM OF THE HIVE: THE SOCIAL PHYSIOLOGY OF HONEY BEE COLONIES, By Thomas D...
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Knees up
(Photograph) - Uneven floors and vertical walls are no obstacle for a remote-controlled robot with spider-like legs, vacuum grippers and the ability to feel intelligently for footholds. Bing Luk (...
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Colliding articles
The row over physicist Alan Sokal's spoof paper in the cultural studies journal Social Text (The THES, June 7) continues. The THES will publish a reply from one of the journal's editors next week....