Art cause needs a finer finish
Fine art conservation skills are in urgent need of care and attention. "Something that worked perfectly well is being brought to its knees," warns Caroline Villers of the department of conservation...
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Our time-less lives
The feel-good factor hasn't returned, so we are told, because job insecurity is still widespread. But Ray Pahl, continuing our series on work and the family, believes it is also because our fractured...
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Case for currency quiz
Two recent reviews (THES, July 26 and August 2) contribute illuminatingly to the vital debate on a single currency. However, they both describe negatively those who oppose a single currency as prone...
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Tobacco roadblock
The Medical Research Council was criticised this week for accepting money from the tobacco giant British American Tobacco. BAT has given Pounds 147,000 to the MRC to research whether nicotine is...
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One flew into the fellow's head
What is a sociology researcher to do when a pigeon starts a family under her desk? Sarah Nelson explains. Now here is a conundrum for the silly season. What do you do when a pigeon builds a nest...
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Students return to barracks
Old German soldiers who become students rather than simply fading away are to be offered accommodation in all-too-familiar surroundings. Ex-conscripts and former professional soldiers who are...
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Fringe Wellcome gene
Audience participation is usually one of the less welcome features of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, when innocent theatregoers can find themselves part of the action. But there was no hesitancy...
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Upping tempo
Clark Brundin, director of the school of management studies at Oxford University and head of Templeton College, Oxford, has earned the term media don after his appearance in the Bedfordshire Times...
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Getting the green light
(Photograph) - Getting the green light: Edinburgh Instruments, a spin-off company from Heriot-Watt University, beams a green light laser system to mark the launch of the Scottish Enterprise and Royal...
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Hearing trials
Detecting hearing problems in newborn babies may reduce the number of children with delayed language development, according to scientists at Southampton University. Researchers have drawn this...
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Dearing questions are often historic ones
The minister announced in the House of Commons that the Government proposed an inquiry into the state of universities. A commission was set up and a series of questions were promptly sent out to...
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Palatable monitor makes it good to talk
One in every 600 children born in the United Kingdom has a cleft palate or cleft lip, which can lead to speech problems. Most of them respond well to conventional speech therapy, but those with...
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Access students warned off elite
Access course students are often discouraged by their own tutors from aiming for a high-ranking university place, a national survey has found. Those hoping to study law at an old university...
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Searching for a colourful lingua franca
An art school head is tickled pink with the results of an international study he has conducted into the everyday use of colour names in popular phrases. Colours used in phrases such as "green with...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. 10.00am. I am in the teaching committee. Oh dear, how dreary - but at least I'll get free coffee and biscuits. Five years ago the teaching committee was exactly what it said; a group of...