Ethics of vivisection moving into focus
The Boyd group has been meeting secretly for two years to find a balance between opposing sides of the debate over vivisection. Earlier this year a group of scientists, academics, animal welfarists...
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Quality row hides cuts aim
When the diploma in art and design was taken over by the Council for National Academic Awards there was a regulation that art colleges/polytechnic faculties of art and design could admit up to 6 per...
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Just walk this American way
More loans, less grants mark sea change in Britain, writes Rupert Wilkinson. The British way of financing university students is getting more like the American one - less reliance on student grants,...
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Blindness in Gaza
I am just back from the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza. The first time I was there was in November 1992, on a fact-finding mission on behalf of the French university presidents. The...
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V-Cs protect quality
Universities and colleges have presented the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kenneth Clarke, with a multi-billion pound list of measures needed to protect standards in further and higher education. In...
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Science of the beat
Science of the beat: American west coast drummer Russ McKinnon gave a special seminar at Bournemouth University's percussion development unit this week. The unit is the only research unit in a...
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Political animals
No contest for the Chicago participant whose name makes it most difficult to fulfil expectation -- James Thurber of the American University. Not a bloodhound or a picaresque anecdote of Ohio...
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Hard times
Software failure expert Bev Littlewood of City University had much to be depressed about this week. Not only does he think we are all in imminent danger of disaster from computer failure in our...
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Pray for today
(Photograph) - Pray for today: Jan McDonald (left), professor of drama at Glasgow University, unveils a model of a proposed new centre for the study of theatre, film and television that has won...
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Impossible wish of Euro-graduates
More than half of Europe's high-flying graduates want to work for a multinational company - but they do not want a foreign boss. The main attractions of multinationals include working in foreign...
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Go-getter
(Photograph) - Go-getter: an electric car designed by engineers at the University of Wales, Cardiff, made its racing debut at Britain's first electric vehicle rally earlier this month. The car came...
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Personnel chiefs mourn unions
Union leaders might find it hard to believe, but the potentially precarious state of their organisations is a major worry for personnel chiefs in higher education. The implications of dwindling union...
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Smokers hear of cancer antidote
Aisling Irwing reports from the British Association for the Advancement of Science festival at Newcastle University. Smokers could avoid getting cancer by taking a chemical that zaps the carcinogens...
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Plankton break law of survival
Aisling Irwing reports from the British Association for the Advancement of Science festival at Newcastle University. Nature may operate more like a hippie commune than a Darwinian free market in some...
