Dotcom doom hits cash-hungry spin-offs
A downward spiral in the technology market and inexperienced management teams are bringing university spin-off companies to a halt. As the dotcom fallout continues and international technology firms...
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Spindigo doctor
Reading University postdoctoral fellow Kalina Nichols shows off a Polygonum tinctorium plant, which produces the natural dye indigo, at the Chelsea Flower Show this week. She is part of the Spindigo...
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Music to my DNA structure
Computer software that converts DNA sequences into music has been made available online by scientists at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Known as ProteinMusic, the original Java program was...
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Scots predict bright e-future
Strathclyde and Glasgow universities are setting up an institute that they believe will help make Scotland an international leader in e-living, e-business and e-services. The institute, expected to...
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Proof in the pudding
Is bread made in a bull's condom a better loaf? Len Fisher samples some of the exotic results of scientists entering the kitchen. The Sicilian village of Erice, rumoured former home of the criminal...
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Vets warn of repeat crisis
Leading veterinary scientists have warned that the long-term decline in British animal disease research must be reversed to prevent even more devastating epidemics following the foot-and-mouth crisis...
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How to play fair in fieldwork
Universities must adapt to give disabled students the chance to study in the field. Pat Leon reports. Mike Adams is a frustrated geographer. He loved the subject at school, especially abseiling down...
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Elite throws open its doors
France's national assembly has adopted a bill that will open entry exams for grandes écoles to students from contracted lycées in underprivileged areas. Originally, the bill was aimed only at...
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From today's UK papers
The Independent Tony Blair stumbled headlong into a dispute over support for education when he staged a photo opportunity at New College, Swindon, where days before, lecturers took strike action...
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Law lessons that hit the rights note
Paul Rigg meets a Spanish lawyer who uses old ballads to bring family law to life. Rosa Peñasco is a Spanish lawyer who sings ballads to her students to teach them the law. She has discovered that...
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Welsh go for single identity
Welsh higher education heads are to consider a "one nation, one university" scheme to unify institutions under the University of Wales banner. The move, which could involve Welsh further education...
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Road to nowhere
In a reversal of fortune, the research assessment exercise appears to have become so popular that a road has been named after it. The highway in question is a short, dead-end street in Bradford,...
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Latest UK news
Clinton opens Oxford institute Former US President Bill Clinton was at Oxford University this afternoon to open its new institute for the study of American culture and politics. Following the...
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Hostages to fortune
Labour Party launches ten education manifesto pledges, May 23 "...Ten, we will enable half of young people under the age of 30 to progress to higher education by 2010, while improving...
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Farewell to welfare
New Labour embraces an economic model that promotes inequality, says Donald Hagger. The social contract and the Labour Party are dead. Tony Blair has completed Margaret Thatcher's destruction of the...