* The Association of University Teachers has called on Michael Forsyth, secretary of state for Scotland, to support an independent pay review body for academic and related staff, writes Olga Wojtas....
Ruth Chadwick charts the ethical course of revolutionary genetics The challenges for bioethics - the exploration of the ethical, social and legal issues raised by advances in medicine and the life...
Education troubleshooter Sir Ron Dearing protected the National Coal Board from some of the political consequences of the 1966 Aberfan disaster, according to papers released by the Public Records...
An Ulsterman has returned after 20 years teaching politics in Australia to accuse Unionists of stalling the peace talks and promoting sectarianism. The son of a late Ulster Unionist hardliner, who...
Paediatrician David Southall talks to Julia Hinde about his pioneering use of secret cameras to catch parents abusing their children and the criticism it has aroused For the past ten years a Keele...
Children of divorced parents do not necessarily turn into maladjusted monsters, Christy Buchanan found Susan divorced two years ago. She has two sons. There have been rough times, but they have coped...
Edward awler and David Finegold report on changing skills needs in the workplace The level of competition in global business demands organisations perform ever better. In the 1990s we are fascinated...
Universities get 20 per cent of their income from charitable organisations, writes Diana Garnham It is estimated that more than 1,000 charitable organisations support some medical research in the...
Frank Wells on the relationship between university research and pharmaceutical companies There has never been a more important time for industry and academia to be working together. Industry needs...
THE WELLCOME TRUST ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF TROPICAL DISEASES Edited by F. E. G. Cox Wellcome Trust, 452pp, Pounds 35.00 ISBN - 1869835 86 7 As a scientific speciality, tropical medicine is barely 100...
Ian Chopra on developments at Leeds's Antimicrobial Research Centre Before the introduction of antibiotics in the 1940s many people died from bacterial infections. The advent of antibiotics...
A VERY GREEDY DRUG: COCAINE IN CONTEXT By Jason Ditton and Richard Hammersley Harwood Academic Publishers, 160pp, Pounds 11.00 ISBN - 3 7186 5904 2 Insubstantial media scares about new illicit drugs...
THE CAMBRIDGE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF MEDICINE Edited by Roy Porter Cambridge University Press 400pp, Pounds 24.95 ISBN - 0 521 4412117 When I was a medical student in the 1950s a distinguished...
George Radda looks at the evolving financial relationship between the Medical Research Council and academia The Medical Research Council plays a crucial role in advancing clinical practice in the...
In the start of a debate about the pros and cons of a superleague of universities in the United Kingdom, Frank Webster stated that the "1996 research assessment exercise demonstrated nothing if not...