Carbon fibre: how we failed to reap rewards
The high potential strength of carbon fibre was first realised in 1963 in a process developed at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough. The process was patented by the Ministry of Defence...
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What separates man from the animals? Four inches and eleven minutes
Jared Diamond asks why the sex life of humans differs so substantially from that of even our nearest relations in the animal world Sex preoccupies us. It is the source of our most intense pleasures...
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Thunder stolen by lightning response
The day began with Sir Ron Dearing posing in a haze of flash photography behind a pile of stout, green, multi-volumed reports. By early evening he had been upstaged. The real star was far younger and...
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Bid to boycott the hard sell
Marketing departments are being pressed to take adverts in university directories. Phil Baty reports University marketing heads are calling for a clampdown on publishers of reference directories....
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Exeter rethinks staff losses
Exeter University has revised plans to axe up to 120 staff jobs. Its "restructuring" plan has been rewritten by its academic policy committee, following criticism by senate members. Lecturers' union...
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Exeter University's bid from Millennium Commission turned down
Exeter University's bid for Pounds 33 million from the Millennium Commission to help cover the cost a new campus in Cornwall has been turned down.
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RGO staff plan rescue
A rescue package to save the Royal Greenwich Observatory is being prepared by staff a fortnight after closure plans were announced. The package could mean the 300-year-old RGO stays at its Cambridge...
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Doctorates in House
Huw Richards assesses the members of the new education and science parliamentary committees The science and technology committee can claim to be the best-qualified group in the entire House. Of its...
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Amanda Weaver
(Photograph) - Northern pointes: 21-year-old Amanda Weaver, a third-year student at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds, gave her farewell performance, 'Always the same gesture',...
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Roberts departs as Dearing delivers
Sir Gareth Roberts, the man behind the Dearing report, reflects on two tumultuous years as CVCP chairman to Huw Richards WAITING for Dearing may be this week's universal fate, but Gareth Roberts...
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Graduates dominate select few
Huw Richards assesses the members of the new education and science parliamentary committees Labour's vast 1997 parliamentary intake, with more than 200 new members among the 418 elected on May 1,...
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Nicaraguan student demonstrations
(Photograph) - Firing line: Nicaraguan students aim home-made mortars during violent demonstrations over cuts in university funding and higher fees. Trouble erupted once more despite efforts to...
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Student loans to be means-tested
Student loans would be means-tested under proposals to be unveiled next week by Sir Ron Dearing. His committee of inquiry into higher education, expected to report on Wednesday, will recommend that...
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Fees will not put poor off
Undergraduate tuition fees will not discourage poorer applicants and make the student body even more middle-class, according to a controversial report to be published in the autumn. Evidence gathered...
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Let's do a Dearing every five years, says committee
A Dearing-style review of highereducation should take place every five to ten years, Sir Ron's committee is to propose. A 30-year gap, the time betweenthe last major review by Robbins and the...