When welcome meant wait
To receive a letter saying "Welcome to Cornell" and "We are delighted to welcome you to the university", would tend to give the impression you had gained admittance, writes Lucy Hodges. Elizabeth...
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Colleges fear funding shake up
Members of Canadian universities fear their institutions will lose as the provinces exercise greater control over spending under changes introduced in the 1995/96 budget. Cash payments are expected...
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Presidents divided by quality bid
An effort to reform quality control in United States colleges and universities is running into such stiff opposition that it may be ditched if a consensus cannot be reached. Some university...
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Fee move hits asylum seekers
The Government has been criticised for closing a loophole over course fees for overseas students without offering protection from the full cost for asylum seekers. Tim Boswell, further and higher...
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Maths forecasts may soon save lives
Julian Hunt, president of the Institute of Mathematics, yesterday held out the promise of mathematicians in the future being able to differentiate between natural and man-made variability in the...
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Centre sifts evidence on health
A controversial approach to providing research and information back-up for health professionals is the focus of a centre opened in Oxford this week. "Evidence-based medicine" is an idea imported from...
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Global warming to resite wheat crops
A new model of the effects of global warming predicts that wheat crop production could drop by a third in drought-prone countries and those of low latitude. But crop production could surge elsewhere...
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Putting heads together helps hearts
A multi-disciplinary approach to problems faced by heart surgeons is producing significant progress in the treatment of coronary disease, according to Gianni Angelini, professor of cardiothoracic...
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Trail of martyr's remains goes cold
Home Office delays are preventing the final chapter being written in an archaeological quest to recover the head of Yagan, an assassinated Aboriginal leader. Southampton University postgraduate...
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Supercrete to rule world
A world of half-mile high skyscrapers has come closer with the development of a new super concrete at Dundee University. "Nothing can touch this material. It has amazing properties," said Rod Jones...
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Japanese build on teams
Workers at Japanese manufacturing firms in the United Kingdom are involved much more in the running and management of their plants than employees in British and other foreign-owned companies,...
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Nationalism's healthy state
"Ten years ago, everyone wanted to study Marxism. Today, it is nationalism and ethnicity." So said Brendan O'Leary, lecturer at the London School of Economics, at the fifth annual conference of the...
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Airports unpack suitcases with maths
A machine that can "unpack" suitcases electronically could soon be piloted in a British airport as a result of a breakthrough in X-ray imaging at Nottingham Trent University. Bags put in X-ray...
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Vice chancellors' pay
Huw Richards surveys the information currently available on top people's pay in institutions for 1993/94 In the notes which accompany the financial statement, balance sheet and auditors' report for...
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Wellcome switch to overseas research
Hopes that the Wellcome Trust would spend its newly boosted income on medical research in the United Kingdom have faltered with the publication of its new policy statement, in which it emphasises...