Ropa lassoes research councils to cause
Science minister David Hunt has announced the expansion of a Government scheme encouraging collaboration between industry and researchers. The Realising Our Potential Award, known as Ropa, launched...
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Proof of plan for child radiation tests
A Dundee researcher has uncovered an American professor's proposals in the 1950s for radiation experiments on "idiots and feeble-minded children". Sue Rabbitt Roff of Dundee's centre for medical...
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Results at the press of a button
First-year engineering students at Heriot-Watt University have just received the results of a pioneering computer-based exam, the latest development in the Pounds 1 million MathWise scheme involving...
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Profile points
The Higher Education Funding Council for England today issued Profiles of Higher Education Institutions, a 300-page guide to its consituency. The profiles include details of each university or...
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Mind matter
Arnold Wolfendale, president of the Institute of Physics, is to chair an Office of Science and Technology committee on the public understanding of science. Iain Murray of the University of Dundee and...
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Teacher sums
The Scottish Office has cut intakes to secondary teacher education courses by almost 200 to 1,210 in the coming session, and slightly boosted primary intakes by 50 to 1,050. Some new teachers are...
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Good neighbour
A former neighbour of a medical researcher at Dundee University, has unexpectedly bequeathed Pounds 350,000 to boost the university's Medical Research Council unit work on cancer and nervous diseases...
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Gas warning
The National Union of Students has again warned all students to take immediate action after the death of two students from carbon monoxide poisoning from faulty gas appliances in Walsall last weekend...
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Brunel kingdom
West London Institute of Higher Education is to be formally incorporated into Brunel University to become Brunel University College next Wednesday. The move follows four years of negotiations and...
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Swingeing cuts attacked
John Arbuthnott, convener of the Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals, has condemned the severity of continuing funding cuts north of the border. Professor Arbuthnott said the block...
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Simulated journeys to centre of the Earth
Experts on the Earth's interior met this week to battle out one of their unsolved questions: what is the temperature of the Earth's core? The answer could shed light on how the Earth formed, on...
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Job cuts spark strike threat
Lecturers at Chelmsford further education college are threatening to take industrial action over an "unfair" programme of cuts which will make about one in six teaching staff redundant but leave...
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Twenty-first century power
(Photograph) - Twenty-first century power: Bob Hill of Northumbria University and its newly solar panel-clad building, which he believes will prove that the sun can make a valuable contribution to...
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Debt and the maiden workers
The cost of getting a steady job means that graduates who get permanent work within six months of taking their degree have on average nearly Pounds 1,200 more debt than those who are still on the...
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Research cash shortfall
Oxford University is filing a complaint to the Office of Science and Technology over the research councils' handling of claims for research project costs. The university says it has lost Pounds 3...