Welsh watch eastern flock
A Welsh University is helping improve the quality of sheep flocks in Estonia and Hungary in preparation for the European market. Agriculture in parts of the former communist world is changing...
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Dig for a missing molar
Digging resumed in earnest this week at the Boxgrove site where archaeologists last year uncovered Britain's oldest hominid fossils. Dig directors from University College, London, hope to discover...
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Scots explore foreign ideas for industry initiative
Academics and industrialists are joining together in a bid to make Scotland a European leader in commercialising research in science and technology. Both sectors have given broad support to a draft...
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New RCA rector seeks lucrative commissions
The new rector of the Royal College of Art is aiming to raise the international profile of the college to make it the international research institute for art and design. He also intends to fight for...
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Four win stake in Canada EU link
British universities have won places in four of the first six projects in a pioneering cooperation programme between the European Union and Canada. Aberdeen, Luton, Sheffield and the Robert Gordon...
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Libraries' expansion shelved
Thirty-four university library improvement schemes estimated to cost Pounds 22.5 million have been scrapped because of the Government's capital funding cuts. The list of abandoned projects was the...
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Samurai in Scotland
A memorandum of agreement to promote education and research collaboration bet- ween Strathclyde and Tokyo Universities might not sound the raciest of news, but it has uncovered an intriguing tale of...
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Ray of light for breast cancer scans
Breast-screening could in the future be done without X-rays using a technique that is as harmless as a reading lamp, a conference heard last month. The screening harnesses rays that are just beyond...
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Particle explosion
If only by virtue of their discipline you might expect particle physicists to be a fragmentary lot, rarely coalescing. But the opposite appears to be true. Following on from their amazing collective...
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Government opens industrial gateway
A radical multimillion pound scheme to boost academic research into industrial technologies is on the Government launch pad. The Government is planning to establish research centres in organisations...
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Exam chaos hits students
Students at two universities are complaining about last-minute rescheduling of exams which they fear could affect their chances of success. At the University of Wales, Cardiff, they have called for...
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Birds worth two in the bush
The ornithological community has been divided by a proposal for a new definition of species which could double the number of bird species in the world to 20,000. Some specialists are predicting that...