Drawing with care
(Photograph) - work of members of an industrial education unit went on display at Queen Mary and Westfield College Gallery last week to raise funds for the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association,...
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Scratch and sniff
Another great British invention has been filed at the Patent Office. Benjamin Simon has made a dual-purpose toilet roll -- it also deodorises the air. He has coated the inside of the cardboard inner...
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Hair raising
Balding but still in your early 30s? Head for Japan, where scientists have filed a patent for a hair restorer. Its name slips easily off the tongue if you are a bit embarrassed about asking for it at...
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Publicity let-down
Advertising does not pay, according to market research on potential higher education applicants. Interviews with more than 500 fifth and sixth-year pupils showed they paid scant attention to...
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Ashdown commits party to science budget boost
Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown yesterday committed his party to boosting the science budget to levels last seen in 1979. Giving the Save British Science Society annual lecture at Imperial...
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Medics wary of Bottomley Pounds 40 million
Virginia Bottomley's announcement this week that an extra Pounds 40 million will be ringfenced for research and teaching at teaching hospitals has been given a cautious welcome at medical schools....
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Eight again
Cambridge dons have voted to retain the eight-week term. Most universities operate a ten week term, often with a reading week in the middle. Lecturers were asked to vote on whether to introduce a...
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Sci-fi fund
If you want to write a science soap opera, drama or serial there is money for you from the PAWS (Public Awareness of Science) drama script fund. The fund has been set up to encourage high quality...
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Bill of rights
Cambridge University Students Union launched a charter for undergraduates and guidelines for graduate study this week. The union will use the charter, which sets out the standard of education and...
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Workers carry on regardless of tax rate
High taxes do not discourage people from working, say researchers in the psychology of economics. The comments come a week before the budget -- psychologists are complaining that economists are not...
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Long road to freedom
A stark picture of university life in Nigeria was painted by Nigerian academic and Nobel literature laureate Wole Soyinka on his arrival in Paris this week. "The education system is dead," said Mr...
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First annual report of the Chief Inspector of Further Education Funding Council
The first annual report from the Further Education Funding Council's chief inspector, which involved the inspection of more than 100 colleges, has concluded that the sector is "dynamic, responsive...
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Light fingers
(Photograph) - Light fingers: Caught Shoplifting, a painting by John Smith, a student at Loughborough College of Art and Design, was part of the backdrop for the Blackburn Lectures, given at...
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Status bid by colleges queried
Vice chancellors have been unable to come to an agreement on what to do about colleges which use the word "university" in their titles. Instead, a council meeting of the Committee of Vice Chancellors...