Odd Bods
Where can you buy a Relativity Mouse Mat, a pair of sterling silver earring replicas of Oxford's Radcliffe Camera, and a "bundle" of J. R. R. Tolkien goodies, all at the push of a button? Only in a...
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MPs clash on Barts merger
A private Bill to merge St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College with the Royal London Hospital and Queen Mary and Westfield College has moved a stage forward in the Commons despite a stormy Labour...
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Thomas Escritt
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Fair exchange
Mind you, the unwary might have concluded that the PSA had taken to including ratings of speakers in lieu of their institutions in the programme list issued for last week's annual conference at York...
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Funders ask about peer pressure
Welsh further education colleges are being consulted on whether they want peer evaluation to become a formal part of the quality assessment process, writes David Charter. In practice, the views of...
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Edinburgh University's professorial husband and wife
(Photograph) - Edinburgh University's professorial husband and wife team, molecular biologist Sir Kenneth Murray and molecular geneticist Noreen Murray, will receive a twin double honour this summer...
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Cryopreservation
(Photograph) - Frozen moment: Erica Benson, of the University of Abertay and Barbara Reed from the United States department of agriculture examine blackcurrant shoots being used to examine the...
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Getting chemistry right
The blueprint for a broadened chemistry PhD could be a trailblazer for the other sciences, according to the Royal Society of Chemistry. At its annual chemical congress at Heriot-Watt University,...
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Crimebusting for Colombia
Colombia will need a collective change in values as well as its current programme of judicial reforms if its endemic violence - with a per capita murder rate almost ten times that of the United...
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Success key to trainee cash
Cash for colleges and other providers of youth training could soon be largely dependent on the success of the trainee, writes David Charter. Training and Enterprise Councils are being asked by the...
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Call for animal rights reps
The warring sides in the animal testing debate have come together for the first time to produce a report on how to overcome their impasse. They have proposed that every research institution should...
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Science parks get virtual
The heyday of the traditional science park could be over if the idea of the "virtual" science park catches on, according to Ian Dalton, director of Heriot-Watt University's research park. Throughout...
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Poor benefit in Chinese reforms of tuition fees
Chinese education authorities have mapped out measures to help poor university and college students while promoting a unified tuition fee policy, Geoffrey Parkins writes. Zhang Tianbao, deputy...
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Malaysian call for a voice
Academics from Malaysia's eight universities are complaining they have been kept in the dark over government plans to corporatise universities, and want a say in the planning process. Wan Abdul Manan...
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Draft for graduates angers Russians
Russian academics, scientists and creative artists last week appealed to President Yeltsin not to approve a military service law which envisages the compulsory drafting of all new graduates and...