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...
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Cape compact
Closer scientific collaboration between South Africa and the United Kingdom was signalled this week with an agreement between the two countries. Science minister David Hunt, visiting South Africa,...
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FE reined in
Scotland's further education colleges have lost the prospect of a spending spree to dispose of funds by the end of March. They have been brought into line with England and Wales, and no longer have a...
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Number cruncher
Tim Holt is to be the next director of the Central Statistical Office and head of the Government statistical service. He is now deputy vice chancellor of Southampton University.
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Engineers find students weak in mathematics
The majority of engineering lecturers surveyed by the Engineering Council believe that the mathematical competence of first-year engineering students is significantly weaker today than it was ten...
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Oxford graduate charter
Oxford university graduates have drawn up a charter with 26 recommendations on research supervision, facilities, employment of graduates in teaching and taught postgraduate courses. The Graduate...