Course teaches living with Aids
A cinema professor is teaching Canada's only interdisciplinary Aids course. Thomas Waugh, of Montreal's Concordia University, has been teaching the course since September. Some of his students are...
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Minorities back on the agenda
Debate on affirmative action is hotting up in the United States. President Clinton has ordered a federal review of affirmative action programmes and Congress is planning to consider two Bills which...
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Isolation and cost batter rural learning
A growing crisis in rural adult education is being caused by lack of resources and the diversity and isolation of communities, a series of case studies by the University of Sussex has found....
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Babies used in research trials without consent
More than 50 babies referred with their parents to a paediatric team currently attached to Keele University were involved without their parents' knowledge in a previously undisclosed research project...
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Kicking a long-term habit
Britain's first professor of addiction took up his post this month, in a move which he hopes will break down taboos over the role of addictions research in informing public policy. John Strang is...
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Sandflies bred in tropic of Keele
Keele University researchers are running an international investigation into the sandfly parasite which causes the debilitating - and in some cases deadly - liver and skin disease leishmaniasis,...
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Marshes salt of the earth
British scientists are attempting to recreate a 20-hectare salt marsh that has undergone massive marine erosion. Scientists from the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology are focussing on a salt marsh at...
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Programme logs on to languages
Cataloguing the languages of the world on computer is the ambitious intention of the international Logosphere programme. Fin-anced by the Leverhulme Trust, it was established by the Observatoire...
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Feathers fly as DNA combats bird crime
New realms of research into the habits of birds of prey have been opened up by scientists using the latest developments in DNA fingerprinting. "Micro-satellite DNA fingerprinting" is enabling...
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Colleges wrestle with futility of `efficiency'
David Charter finds growth targets are forcing job losses in further education. Under-recruitment of students in the light of continuing growth targets plays a large part in the pattern of redund-...
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Colleges wrestle with futility of `efficiency'
There are fears that "efficient" colleges are being penalised by the fur-ther education funding regime as forecasts of hundreds of redundancies start to come true. The most common reason given by...
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Vision of a healthy future
Gareth Roberts, the chairman-elect of the CVCP, sets out his agenda to Huw Richards. The Committee for Vision, Clout and Partnership". Well, perhaps not. But in conjuring up a new version of those...
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Numbers up but at a price
Scotland's 21 higher education institutions have had their funded student numbers boosted by more than 2 per cent, against an overall funding increase of only 1 per cent from the Scottish Higher...
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Vocational yardstick `too crude for equal opportunity'
Vocational A-level students applying for higher education places are at a disadvantage because the grading system for the new qualification is too crude, admissions chiefs say. Most academic...
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Firkin habit
Britain's first professor of addiction has chosen an appropriate base: his nearest watering hole, the Pheasant and Firkin, has the motto: "Usque ad mortem bibendum."