Oil pollution monitor wins top green prize
A team of scientists developing a device for monitoring oil pollution has won the top prize in a new environmental award scheme. The instrument makes use of the latest advances in opto-electronics...
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Sister act
(Photograph) - Sister act: A celebration of women being played out at Bolton Institute of Higher Education last week as part of a voyage of creative discovery for six female access students. The...
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Universities set to flex economic muscle in battle to stave off cuts
Scottish higher education institutions are preparing to battle against funding cuts, armed with a report which shows higher education as a key player in the Scottish economy, writes Olga Wojtas. Iain...
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Genes on the mind
The identification of genes that contribute to mental diseases, such as schizophrenia and manic depression, is one of the biggest challenges facing geneticists, according to Sir Walter Bodmer,...
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Darwin's house waits for windfall
The campaign to save Down House, the decaying home of Charles Darwin, failed to win money in the National Heritage Lottery Fund's latest announcements made last week. The delay brings the Natural...
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Chart hits?
Some geographers are getting very excited over the uses of computerised mapping systems. Others are not convinced. John Davies reports. Cartographic wonder-tool or overhyped techical gizmo? Enhancer...
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Marks upgrade for 4,000
A new university raised the marks of over 4,000 of its students by 6 per cent because of the disruption caused by building work on one of its campuses. The move by the University of Westminster,...
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Wanted: local heroes
The latest academic research has thrown up a a new link between those much debated phenomena; screen violence and rising crime rates. According to researchers at the London School of Economics the...
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NUS quizzes members on student funding
The National Union of Students is launching what it describes as its most widespread and in-depth research initiative, to sound student views on the funding of education in time for its annual...
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Overlap concern
Raymond Robertson, Scottish Office minister for education, has launched a research project to compare the costs of education for 16 to 19-year-olds in secondary schools and further education colleges...
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Postgrad support
In the academic year 1993-94, there were 43,800 postgraduate award holders in the UK, 22 per cent of the postgraduate population. In England 9,267 postgraduate students received support from access...
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Internet news
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features and reviews in the newspaper. Job advertisements appear on THESIS on the Tuesday before publication. The New...
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Hepatitis B screening 'unfair to students'
Revised medical school guidelines on screening applicants for the hepatitis B virus continue to discriminate against students compared with health workers, according to medical student leaders. The...
