Oncology steps into DNA footprints
Biochemists at Southampton University are tracing the DNA "footprints" left by anti-cancer drugs to find out more about how the drugs prevent the growth of cells. The technique of DNA footprinting...
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Diabetes as part of growing up
MEDICS are turning to anthropologists to help them understand the lifestyles and attitudes of young diabetics across Europe. David Riches and Alexandra Greene of St Andrews University, and Stephen...
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Sleeping with baby may make sense
Medicine and mountains: both are benefiting from anthropology studies INFRA-RED cameras installed in the bedrooms of families in north-east England could shed light on modern sleeping behaviour and...
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Busy bishops use Vatican loophole to found colleges
Private universities are labouring against opposition, reports Rebecca Warden from Barcelona THE so-called bishops' universities are the latest private education ventures to hit the headlines. Two...
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Last laugh
(Photograph) - David Triesman, general secretary of the Association of University Teachers, sees the funny side of life with Christine Cheesman, chief executive of the Association of University and...
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Don's Diary
"Don't do it," a colleague with many booksbehind him tells me. I try to recall my supervisor's enthusiasm for making a book from my PhD. May Readers' reports from academic publishers are not so...
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Scots face loss of over 1,400 jobs
At least 700 Scottish academics and another 700 non-academic staff could be made redundant if Government budget cuts go ahead. The Association of University Teachers Scotland and the Committee of...
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Multiple births stir doubts
Private universities are labouring against opposition, reports Rebecca Warden from Barcelona PRIVATE universities are on the increase in Spain. There are now ten, teaching some 70,000, or just 1.7...
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Socrates drop-out leads to shake-up
The European Commission was this week urgently revising its new Socrates exchange programme following the loss of a major British player and warnings of a Europe-wide credibility crisis. The...
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Catholics 'too free with names'
Private universities are labouring against opposition, reports Rebecca Warden from Barcelona WHAT'S in a name? If the dispute over the Free University of Catalonia is anything to go by, the answer...
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Female freshers take lead
AUSTRALIAN women university students not only outnumber their male counterparts but are also outperforming them easily, according to the latest research. So seriously do the researchers take the...
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Natal sheds staff and courses as cuts bite
THE UNIVERSITY of Natal has become the first in South Africa to begin shedding jobs following cuts to government funding. Around 46 staff have been told they are to be retrenched or redeployed, and...
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Archaeologists survive kidnapping
A LEADING Mayan specialist, who nearly lost his life while on an archaeological dig, has found out the hard way that cultural sensitivity and diligent preparation can only go so far. University of...
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Students die in Kenya riots
THE UNIVERSITY of Nairobi has closed indefinitely after 14 people, four of them students, died in clashes between the police and opposition pro-reform activists. A university spokesman said...
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Dropouts promised new jobs in schools
STUDENTS who have dropped out of university are to be employed in schools as part of the new French government's drive to tackle youth unemployment. French schools are to take on 40,000 young people...