Lab chiefs rule out Iraqi-style chemical thefts
Security in Britain's university laboratories is now so tight that the theft of dangerous chemicals as allegedly occurred in the 1980s by Iraqi students would be almost impossible, it is claimed....
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Bath backs regional university link
Bath University has joined forces with the University for Swindon and Wiltshire Project, set up by the Wiltshire Training and Enterprise Council, local authorities and businesses, to fill a gap in...
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St George's takes the fast-track lead
A BRITISH medical school is presenting plans for the first fast-track degree for would-be doctors to the General Medical Council this week. London's St George's Hospital Medical School hopes to admit...
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Europe moves on patents
European ministers were yesterday expected to back the controversial European biotechnology patent directive. The directive, rewritten to take in amendments from the European parliament in July, was...
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Drink problems lurk behind closed doors
People who live longer do not have to fear a decrepit old age if they just keep active, say scientists Alcohol misuse among the elderly may be a "hidden and undiagnosed" problem, say researchers at...
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Nuclear waste inquiry on stream
AN INQUIRY into nuclear waste management has been announced by the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology. Prompted by what it calls "the failure of the UK to adopt a strategy for...
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Betjeman's books find home at Exeter
EXETER University has acquired Sir John Betjeman's personal library with Pounds 123,750 from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The 4,000-book collection of the late poet laureate will be housed in the old...
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Windfall for genes farming probe
THE BIOTECHNOLOGY and Biological Sciences Research Council is putting Pounds 4.5 million into a project to exploit developments in genome analysis of crops and livestock. Genome Analysis of...
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Hopes of new meningitis vaccine
A SOUTHAMPTON professor gave his inaugural lecture on meningococcal meningitis this week less than a month after three first-years at the university died of the disease. John Heckels, professor of...
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Arts schools open doors to schools
The London Institute will get Pounds 350,000 of National Lottery money for its Young at Art project linking its five art colleges to local schools and colleges. Camberwell College of Arts plans to...
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Three artists to take residence in Gloucester
The Arts Council has also awarded Pounds 89,800 to Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education for the funding of three artists in residence. The first, yet to be appointed, will be based...
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Exeter strains to raise standards
QUALITY watchdogs have called on Exeter University to brush up its quality monitoring, saying its system is under strain. The university told the Higher Education Quality Council when it visited in...
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Quality agency to get degree powers
Five members of an advisory committee to ministers on whether institutions can become universities have resigned ahead of Quality Assurance Agency reforms. The committee is expected to lose the...
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Scots act to ease contract solitude
THE ACADEMIC life of a contract researcher can frequently fit all of Hobbes's dismal description: solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. But the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is taking...
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Food safety agency delayed
The white paper on the promised food standards agency has been delayed as arguments over its nutritional role escalate. According to a Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food insider, the final...