Report reveals college warfare
A row has broken out over the administration of Llismatusarfik, the University of Greenland. A report by PLS Consult, a Danish consultancy, for the Greenland government, describes conditions at the...
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Oxford quizzed over doctorate to professor
Cafas, the academic standards campaign group, is to question Oxford University about a doctorate awarded to a Glasgow professor of paediatric neurology after learning that the book that formed his...
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Smiles better
(Photograph) - Anthony Clare gave this year's Happiness Lecture at the University of Birmingham last week. He may have failed to enter into the spirit of things completely since his title was "The...
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Volcano ash chokes planes
When Mount Galunggung in Indonesia erupted in June 1982 a British Airways passenger jet flew into its plume. The engines were choked by the ash and the aircraft fell thousands of feet before the...
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Last bastion falls to the box
The last sizeable westernised culture to be without television will get it next January -- and researchers will be there to observe the effects. A team of researchers from Cheltenham and Gloucester...
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Nirex urged to use peer review
The Royal Society has urged the nuclear waste disposal firm, Nirex, to open its scientific programme for the building of an underground radioactive waste repository in Cumbria to national and...
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Faith fashions economy models
A mixture of faith, fashion and prejudice is what Kenneth Clarke, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has ultimately to fall back on when taking advice from economic forecasters, according to a study...
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Three-man race for CVCP
The contenders for the post of chairman of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals threw their hats into the ring last week. Peter Toyne, vice chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University...
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Drawing with care
(Photograph) - work of members of an industrial education unit went on display at Queen Mary and Westfield College Gallery last week to raise funds for the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association,...
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Scratch and sniff
Another great British invention has been filed at the Patent Office. Benjamin Simon has made a dual-purpose toilet roll -- it also deodorises the air. He has coated the inside of the cardboard inner...
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Hair raising
Balding but still in your early 30s? Head for Japan, where scientists have filed a patent for a hair restorer. Its name slips easily off the tongue if you are a bit embarrassed about asking for it at...
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Publicity let-down
Advertising does not pay, according to market research on potential higher education applicants. Interviews with more than 500 fifth and sixth-year pupils showed they paid scant attention to...
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Ashdown commits party to science budget boost
Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown yesterday committed his party to boosting the science budget to levels last seen in 1979. Giving the Save British Science Society annual lecture at Imperial...
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Medics wary of Bottomley Pounds 40 million
Virginia Bottomley's announcement this week that an extra Pounds 40 million will be ringfenced for research and teaching at teaching hospitals has been given a cautious welcome at medical schools....