At the cutting edge
Peter McGuffin, who studies the role of genetics in the shared behaviour traits of families, continues a series in which leading academics discuss their ground-breaking research Hardly a week goes by...
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'Proof need have taken only a few days'
Bad news travelled too slowly. As civil servants face the BSE inquiry, Fred Pearce reports that experts of the disease informally (below) and hears a frustrated, ignored researcher (right) The...
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Domino effects at Wellcome
The new head of the Wellcome Trust, Michael Dexter (right), tells Alison Goddard why playing dominoes helps his work Humming softly, the heavy double doors swing open electronically to reveal the...
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Down but not out in London, Manchester...
Britain's housing shortage could be solved by renovating inner-city estates, argues Anne Power, in the latest in a THES series on social exclusion People who have nowhere to live are society's most...
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Fact file
The Further Education Funding Council's figures for 1996-97 reveal that: * 51 per cent of 16 to 18-year-old, full-time, full-year further education college students were female * 45 per cent of 19 to...
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Yomura Akino
The funeral of Yomura Akino, the Japanese academic murdered while on a United Nations peace mission in Tajikistan two weeks ago, has taken place in Sappora. His former students at Tsukuba University...
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Appointments
Birkbeck College, University of London Julia Goodfellow, chair of the crystallography department, has been appointed vice-master of the college. Council on International Educational Exchange...
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Fellowships
Leverhulme Trust Barbara English, professor in the department of history at the University of Hull, has been awarded an emeritus fellowship to undertake research on icons of monarchy in the 11th...
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Nesta trustees meet for first time
Trustees of the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts met for the first time this week. They will have to decide how to spend Pounds 200 million from the National Lottery. The first...
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Spurned wife goes public in cause of fair play
The abandoned wifeof a lecturer is planning to set up a support group for people whose husbands have left them for students, writes Phil Baty. Her husband, a lecturer at Southampton Institute who has...
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Oxbridge MAs in danger
OXBRIDGE graduates may lose their automatic right to a master of arts degree under plans being considered by a qualifications working party. Special arrangements by which bachelors of arts from...
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Research preserve of rich or sponsored
A benefactor is fast becoming more essential than a first-class degree for a PhD. The number of PhD students at British universities has fallen, according to the latest figures from the Office of...
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Worthington falls in reshuffle
NORTHERN Ireland's education minister Tony Worthington has been sacked amid protests from the United Kingdom's biggest lecturing union. Mr Worthington (Clydebank and Milngavie), a former further and...
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Access plans 'fail bottom 20%'
GOVERNMENT may struggle to widen participation in further and higher education for the fifth of all children failed by the schools system, the Liberal Democrats have said, Alan Thomson writes....
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Exams staff face deletions
STAFF struggling to correct computer blips that threatened to jeopardise A-level results have said their jobs are under threat. Managers at the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate...