Howard's beginning
Alumni to be proud of No. 20 is that well-known son of Romanian Jewish refugees Michael Hecht, now known to the police, and the electorate, as Michael Howard. His compassion towards displaced people...
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Heartening news for angina women
Glasgow University researchers who last week revealed dramatic results in the treatment of heart disease are now turning their attention to a hitherto neglected group - women. The West of Scotland...
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Having a ball
(Photograph) - Having a ball: Eight members of the Professional Footballers Association have graduated from University College Salford's PFA-sponsored part-time BSc in physiotherapy, specially...
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A level gold standard to tumble
Custodians of education's most sacred cow, the A level, have been mobilised to defend the "gold standard" against what they see as its deadliest rival - the overarching post-school qualification....
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Lakes pins hope on the Internet
One of the country's most remote regions is to plug in to computer communications to make higher education accessible to all. Cumbria County Council is setting up a steering group to make Workington...
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Ulster students in cash crisis
Almost one third of students in Northern Ireland are taking jobs partly to avoid the trap of student loans, a survey claims. Although students in the province are more likely to receive full...
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FE inspectors take lessons from US
British inspectors visiting United States community colleges have found that parity of esteem between academic and vocational education is not an issue there. In contrast with Europe and particularly...
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A bounce a day keeps brittle bones away
A daily routine of 50 jumps could help save women from osteoporosis, according to a Nottingham University researcher. Joan Bassey, senior lecturer in physiology in Nottingham's medical school, warns...
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Search for superhighway code
The potential social consequences of the information superhighway are to be investigated by researchers at Oxford University. The study, backed by a Pounds 161,340 grant from the Economic and Social...
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Amherst verbal code starts war of words
A draft "harassment policy" at the biggest college campus in New England has resurrected the debate about university speech codes. It aims to punish "verbal or physical conduct" that "...
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Fears of Belarus academic ban
Belarusian experts fear a top-level but unpublished directive may halt visits to the country's universities by overseas academics. Evidence of the ban came from a Roman Catholic priest who is...
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Frogs spawn a research success
In the first of an occasional series John Habgood, Archbishop of York, tells Martyn Kelly about his first academic publication in 1950 in the Journal of Physiology. One of the tasks of moral...
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Darned mystery
Fifty years after the Red Army fought its way into Hitler's bunker the manner of the Fuhrer's death and the identification of his body remain in dispute. John Erickson recounts the tales of those...
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Loans bite
The British Dental Association has joined the campaign urging the Government to increase student loans to medical, dental and veterinary students. Katy Clarke, association student liaison officer,...