Home is where the Foyer is
The Foyer Foundation holds its annual conference next week. Harriet Swain looks at how foyers are helping Britain's poorest young people get into college Government funding of further and higher...
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The THES Diary
Off the cuff With the present flurry of higher education initiatives, it was an easy mistake to make. The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals (CVCP), organiser of last week's conference on...
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Glittering prizes
The Open University will award honorary degrees tomorrow to database specialist and lecturer Hugh Darwen (MUniv); education reformer John Tomlinson (DUniv); Alistair Graham, chief executive at Leeds...
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On the move
David Mingos, 54, Sir Edward Frankland BP professor of chemistry and dean of the Royal College of Science at Imperial College, London, has been elected principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He has...
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Eye witness
The Comoros, an isolated group of islands 300 kilometres off the east coast of Africa, is coming to terms with the latest of a series of coups, attempted coups and political unrest since independence...
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Moscow
A Russian parliamentary official has been arrested for allegedly taking a Pounds 6,000 bribe from a scientific research centre to lobby for a favourable international agreement. The Federal Security...
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Vaxjo
Magnus Soderstrom has been named rector of Vaxjo University, one of Sweden's new universities, upgraded from a university college. He is assistant professor of educational science at Uppsala...
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Malacca
Malaysian university vice-chancellors were given two days to identify students who took part in street protests in support of jailed former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim. University disciplinary...
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A tendency for divergence
European integration will not come about by talk of convergence alone, say Institute of Education workers National convergence is at the heart of the European project and of much post-war social...
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'Think about college. Get some knowledge. Prep it up!'
Trying to reach young students who may not consider themselves candidates for college, the southern American state of Georgia has commissioned a rap song. The message: college is hip. "Think about...
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Saviours of a far from lost cause
Save British Science is to launch its own 'green papers' to ensure its activities pay off, says Peter Cotgreave, director of SBS The prime minister has told Save British Science that he looks forward...
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Cutting edge
Consumers are eager to learn about what makes a healthy diet. They could take a look at flavanols' effect on free radicals Public concern about food quality and safety is at an all-time high....
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Legal lift for French patents
Celia Hampton looks at Jospin's liberal reform of public sector innovation Many academics feel uneasy about commercialising their research. In France their reservations are backed up by the law. But...
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The thriving drug counter culture
Entrepreneurs with a science background are taking the biotechnology business by storm, reports Kam Patel More than a quarter of the companies responsible for the European biotechnology industry's "...
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The MIT men who make a killing
Mike Cassidy retired for a year when his telephone/computer software made him millions, but now he is back in business. Julia Hinde reports Send a parcel by Federal Express and you can check its...