(Photograph) - Metabolic rate: a Gas Exchange Measurement calorimeter has been developed by the department of anaesthesia at the University of Manchester and Europa Scientific to treat patients...
Staff at Aberdeen University's assisted reproduction unit are celebrating the safe arrival of the first Scottish baby conceived using a new infertility treatment. The little girl was born earlier...
Not an easy life, that of a telephonist in a higher education that spawns long and unwieldy names like Higher Education Funding Council for England, Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals and...
Alumni to be proud of No. 4: William Joyce, aka Lord Haw-Haw, executed after the Second World War for broadcasting for the Nazis, was the proud possessor of a first-class degree in English from...
There's nothing like an interesting visitor to ease the longueurs of the summer months, so there was a warm welcome from the Higher Education Funding Council for England information department when a...
Another cherished piece of academic legend bites the dust. Almost as resilient as the old Oxford joke about late Victorian redbrick Keble College "C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la gare" is the...
Despite his lengthy exile in England, Sir Stewart has obviously not forgotten Aberdonians' reputation for canniness with money. He regaled the quincentenary audience with the one about the newly...
Aberdeen's daily paper, the Press and Journal, is noted for seeing the city and its environs as the centre of the universe. Sir Stewart Sutherland, principal of Edinburgh University and former vice...
A law lecturer at Manchester University has spoken out against the lay industrial tribunal system, which he says is failing victims of race discrimination in higher education. Asif Qureshi, who is...
Two health experts at London University are warning there is an urgent need for research into the effects of the National Lottery. Martin McKee, reader in public health medicine, and health economist...
The triple jump, suddenly fashionable in the wake of Jonathan Edwards' spectacular victory at the World Athletics Championships in Gothenberg, could provide further British triumphs at the World...
The Labour Party should tread carefully but boldly if it wants to win votes with the idea of creating "learning accounts" to support education and training, according to independent policy...
Rumours persist in Whitehall that Bob May, the Oxford University-based biologist, initially refused to continue with his appointment as the Government's chief scientific adviser on being notified of...
In Rashdall's classic study The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages we read: "Paris and Bologna are the archetypal - it might almost be said the only original universities: Paris supplied the...
Imagine a red car and a yellow car hitting each other head-on at high speed. Both cars are wrecked and debris is strewn across a wide area. But what is this? The red car, despite all the evidence...