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  1. A dose of the same medicine

    Alternative therapies must be subject to the same standards as orthodox medicine, argues Jack Howell. For nearly 140 years since the introduction of the Medical Act 1858, which introduced the...

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  2. Nursing figures for the patient

    Florence Nightingale was the first to research patient care. Margaret Alexander and Jenny Hunt look at her followers. "For we who nurse, our nursing is a thing which, unless in it we are making...

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  3. Medical research and teaching

    (Photograph) - Research funding for medical and dental schools follows a radically different pattern from that of higher education research funding in general. The pie charts, based on the latest...

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  4. A healthy body of evidence

    Increased pressure on resources has seen the development of health care that is based firmly on scientific proof. Olga Wojtas meets John Swales, the academic charged with carrying forward a...

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  5. Appointments

    UNIVERSITY OF NORTHUMBRIA. Vince Ramprogus, former director of nursing research at Keele University, has been appointed assistant dean (nursing and midwifery) in the faculty of health, social work...

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  6. Honorary degrees

    UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER. LLD: Mary Hogg, High Court judge and member of the university's court of governors; John MacGregor, former secretary of state for education and science and leader of the...

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  7. Grants

    QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST. Charities. Dr A. Stitt, Pounds 113,000 from the British Diabetic Association (to finance Dr Stitt's work at the Picower Institute in New York for a year with Dr H....

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  8. Fellowships

    LSE. Honorary fellows: John Bourn, comptroller and auditor general; William Cornish, fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge; David Goldstone chairman of Regalian Properties; Mick Jagger, rock singer...

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  9. Chairs

    KING ALFRED'S COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION. The following professorial titles have been conferred: Michael Llewellyn, head of the school of science, technology and design; Alan Penny, reader in the...

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  10. Awards

    SCHLEGEL-TIECK PRIZE. The German Embassy's Translator's Association prize is shared by Ronald Speirs and William Yuill. The awards recognised Mr Speirs's translation of the political writings of Max...

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  11. Mad cow research at risk

    Scientists at the Institute of Animal Health fear that vital research on transmissible diseases, including BSE and scrapie, is under threat because of management plans to cut the workforce by nearly...

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  12. Thesis

    Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features and reviews in the newspaper. Job advertisements, appear on THESISon the Tuesday before publication. The service...

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  13. Physics puts up a fight

    A "fight for physics" has been launched by the Institute of Physics to stop 1996/97 budget cuts hitting the discipline, writes Kam Patel. Institute concern was heightened by an internal review of all...

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  14. Currency jitters hit joint work in Europe

    The director general of research councils, Sir John Cadogan, warned this week that the cost of British particle physicists' participation in the international particle-smashing research programme at...

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  15. Antithesis

    Starter for five Scourge of evasive politicians and anatomiser of the failings of the British establishment, the BBC's Jeremy Paxman might seem a natural hero for students. But not so. No fewer than...

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