Ethics reports on animal organ transplants multiply
In the rush to examine the ethics of transplanting animal organs into humans, three different top committees are to produce reports, writes Aisling Irwin. The Government this week announced the...
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Experts split on shift to basics
Academics who have joined forces to produce a book on Government policy options are split over calls for a reduction in higher education funding. Contributing authors to Options for Britain: A...
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Flamingo road
Forget the status symbol of a Jaguar car on a newly-gravelled drive. Derek Drummond, professor of architecture at McGill University in Montreal, thinks a better sign to watch for is the presence of a...
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Hacks on heat
Geographers may have to revise their old assurances that the climate of the west of Scotland is wet and warm. Last week's conference of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers...
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Bad tidings
Colin McCallum, Strathclyde's director of external affairs and development, was in Canada over Christmas when his father-in-law rang to say: "I've got some bad news for you - your house is flooded."...
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Powder puff
(Photograph) - Powder puff: The Rake's Progress by Hogarth inspired an exhibition called "Theatre". It includes stage design by students from Central St Martin's and costume design by students from...
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Cabbage technology
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is to provide Pounds 600,000 for research aimed at developing environmentally friendly technologies. Projects include devices for generating...
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MRes popular
The new masters degree in the theory and practice of research introduced last year on a pilot scale has proved to be more popular than expected, according to science minister Ian Taylor. Research...
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Private cash guidelines
A checklist on rules governing Private Finance Initiative projects has been issued to universities and colleges by legal watchdogs. Further and higher education institutions have been advised to mug...
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Degree skirmish leads to ballot
Plans for a new Cambridge degree in education studies will be put to a rare vote of all 3,000 dons after protests from a small band of mathematicians and scientists. The degree, which will be mainly...
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Murphy's law rediscovered
An English professor has unearthed the manuscripts of the 18th-century creator of modern copyright law just as Britain was brought into line with France and Germany through a European Union directive...
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Squirrel nuts
The festive edition of the British Medical Journal includes a paper on whether Squirrel Nutkin had Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, which causes uncontrollable gesticulations and verbal outbursts....
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Pelican brief
Oddly absent from the 1995 edition of the Corpus Christi College, Oxford magazine The Pelican Record, is any review of the memoirs of former president Sir Kenneth Dover, which caused something of a...
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Parrot fashion
Commenting on the appearance of a parrot on Have I Got News for You, a viewer suggested to the BBC's Points of View programme that a suitable follow-up would be Bill Stubbs, chief executive of the...
