What the Pusztai research was about
Arpad Pusztai's experiment at the Rowett Research Institute was designed to identify whether potatoes could be genetically engineered to produce a powerful insecticide and yet still be safe to eat,...
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Arpad pusztai speaks out
The scientist at the centre of allegations of suppression of research was freed this week to speak out about his controversial findings that genetically modified foods may cause ill-effects. Arpad...
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On the move
Sir Dominic Cadbury, 58, chairman of Cadbury Schweppes plc, is to chair the Wellcome Trust when Sir Roger Gibbs retires on December 31. He will become a governor of the trust on June 1. Patrick...
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George Mudie
Lifelong learning minister George Mudie takes his brief so much to heart that he once took private French lessons from a fellow backbencher and, more recently, signed up for a Saturday afternoon...
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Don's Diary
Monday A re-accreditation visit from the professional body to validate my course. The kids on holiday from school and Shirley away with her mother. Preparation for the visit from Finland from our...
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The THES Diary
The right hand of Hod Sick as a parrot after being sacked for claiming paedophilia is not always harmful and saying blacks are usually less intelligent than whites, former Edinburgh University...
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Glittering prizes
Former United States senator George Mitchell, 66, chair of the commission that produced the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland and recently appointed chancellor of Queen's, Belfast, has...
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Weathering a Soros storm
James Sadkovich describes his disillusion with the management of the American University in Bulgaria Named after the founder of the Bulgarian Communist Party, Blagoevgrad is a small town tucked into...
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World watch
Rome More than 400 Italian academics have signed a declaration against human cloning and sent it to the Pope. Bruno Dallapiccola, genetics professor at Tor Vergata University in Rome, said: "The...
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World watch
Moscow Academician Abel Aganbegyan, one of the principal architects of perestroika in the former Soviet Union, has been charged with "stealing" two buildings belonging to the Academy of the National...
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World watch
Durham A former instructor at North Carolina Central University, Durham, has been convicted of passing a student in exchange for a television set and video game system. Zoology lecturer Vonda Reed...
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Quark negative
Most software vendors approached by the Combined Higher Education Software Team accept that academic discounts are a cheap way of buying mindshare among tomorrow's decision makers. But after months...
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Danger mouse?
The Health and Safety Executive is funding a two-year study by Loughborough and Surrey universities on possible health risks of computer devices such as touch screens, joysticks and the mouse.
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Keele University
Keele University has 17 not 70 staff earning more than Pounds 50,000 (THES, February 5) and the figure for D. Vaughan at the Cumbria College of Art and Design included the employer's pension...
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Eye witness
Spain has contested the status of Gibraltar for almost 300 years. Last week's rumble of gun-boat diplomacy and scenes of traffic queuing at Spanish customs are a further chapter in the saga of...