Welsh farmers gain an institute
The Welsh Institute of Rural Studies was established at Aberystwyth last week when the university's department of agriculture merged with the Welsh Agricultural College. Michael Haines, institute...
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Cash for Irish sensors
The International Fund for Ireland is to back a major project linking Ulster's two universities and two in the Irish Republic. The Biomedical and Environmental Sensor Technology (BEST) Centre is...
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Folk fight to fill the house
Earlier this year a party planned to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Bristol Folk House looked like turning into a wake. But thanks to a number of donations, the party is still on. In October...
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Contract staff win appeal on status
The Association of University Teachers is claiming an Employment Appeal Tribunal decision as an important victory in its campaign to improve the status of thousands of contract staff. Glasgow...
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Riddle of the missing Asians in UK professional football
A research centre devoted to the study of soccer is investigating one of the great anomalies of the British game - why there are no Asian players in the professional league. "Either Asians are not...
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Minorities locked out
Local authorities and housing associations have largely failed to address the housing needs of black and other ethnic minority elderly people, according to University of Warwick research. The report...
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Motor sets satellites on cheap orbit
A rocket motor being developed by researchers at Surrey University looks set to help slash the cost of moving small satellites from one orbit to another. The 350N "hybrid" motor has already been...
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Russian voters revealed
Researchers at Keele and Glasgow universities are to prise open one of Russia's deepest secrets - how its people vote. Matthew Wyman of Keele's politics department is being funded with Pounds 52,000...
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Tigray turns to Bangor
Preventing famine in northern Ethiopia is the aim of a Pounds 190,000 World Bank-funded partnership programme between Bangor University and Tigray's Mekelle College. The three-year-old college is...
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New strings for old craft
The Chinese government recently established a centre for the production of European classical string instruments in Beijing. Its director learned the craft of making violins, violas, cellos and...
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Profit in diversity
It is next to impossible to assess the true overall value of a species," Norman Myers writes in his review this week of a clutch of books on biodiversity (pages 22-28). We cannot tell what may come...
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Giants fall victim to HEFCE cut
Manchester University and Imperial College - the third and fifth largest recipients of funding council research money - have dropped into the safety net provided for losers in Higher Education...
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Access students reprieved
Thousands of access course students whose plans to go on to higher education were jeopardised by the abolition of the mature students' allowance have been reprieved. The Department for Education and...
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Multi-campus plan for Brum
Birmingham could get a multi-campus university on the American state university model if plans to link the University of Central England and East Birmingham College go ahead. East Birmingham is...
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Statistical first
The Higher Education Statistics Agency this week produced its first publication, Higher Education Statistics for the United Kingdom 1992/93 (129 pages, Pounds 15) in conjunction with the Government...