SA tightens its grip on ethics
Scandal over falsified breast cancer trial results has led to new ethical guidelines for researchers. Karen MacGregor reports from Durban South Africa is to monitor medical research more carefully to...
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ߣߣÊÓƵn medicine given some northern exposure
The new James Cook medical school in Northern Queensland is bringingdoctors to under-represented regions and focusing on the health problems of its Aboriginal population. Julia Hinde reports from...
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Puffin birds are master builders
The puffin has been revealed as one of the master builders of the bird world. Research in Shetland by a team from the Institute for Oceanography in Kiel, Germany, has found burrows dug by the seabird...
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Meteorite turned Mexico to mush
The meteorite that punctuated the age of the dinosaurs would have transformed a vast region of the Yucatan Peninsula into a seething fluid of pulverised rock, computer simulations have suggested....
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Glass class
(Photograph) - John Preston, official glass-blower at the University of East Anglia, is to retire in 2002 and the search is on to find his successor. He is looking for an experienced person to train...
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Confused? You will be
The University of Abertay, Dundee's links with China appear to be raising more questions than they answer. Stewart Howe of the university's business school has gone to an international education fair...
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When a meal out changes lives
Geographer Ian Cook is studying the impact of changing western eating habits on Third World communities. He spoke to Wendy Barnaby Dinner at the Bamboula Jerk Kitchen comes with small containers of...
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Retreads for Longbridge
Education and health chiefs in Birmingham have urged ministers to consider a scheme for universities and colleges to retrain up to 2,000 Longbridge workers as "paraprofessionals" in schools and...
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Broadcast fails to pull the men
City University is struggling to recruit men onto its postgraduate diploma in broadcast journalism. So far, only one place has been offered to a male applicant, who deferred his place from last year...
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Antibiotics wrongly blamed for superbugs
The use of antibiotics as growth promoters in animals is being made a scapegoat for the rise of the superbug, a survey of leading medical microbiologists has suggested. The survey of the opinions of...
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FE enrolments to double, says funding council
Funding chiefs claimed this week that further education will soon be back on target for recruiting more students, writes Tony Tysome. This is despite numbers falling for two consecutive years. The...
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Historian takes the 'new' out of Labour
New Labour is not as new as it is painted, according to Exeter University historian Andrew Thorpe, writes Olga Wojtas. Senior lecturer Dr Thorpe, speaking at the conference "New Labour, New...
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Colleges lose out on New Deal students
Colleges are being short-changed under the government's New Deal scheme for the unemployed. Further education colleges receive about Pounds 2,300 for educating a New Deal student from the Employment...
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List to fight African looting
The International Council for Museums has issued a "Red List" of archaeological items being looted on a large scale from Africa and sold on to museums, art dealers and auction houses in Europe and...
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Science projects suffer in squeeze
Strategic research by the British Geological Survey has suffered from a combination of government short-termism, the focused demands of commercial contracts and a long, gradual squeeze on science...