Grants
UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL Charities Professor A. Bianco, Pounds 570,857 from Wellcome Trust (biology of secretion in filarial nematodes); Professor J. Cawley, Pounds 57,354 from Leukaemia Research Fund...
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Research opportunities
CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH COLLEGE Canterbury Christ Church College (Kent U.) was accidentally omitted from the Research Opportunities listing for research degrees and jobs in The THES supplement of...
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Honorary degrees
OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY DA: Pefkios Georgiades, architect, member of RIBA, winner of the 1985 Pomme D'Or of the International Association of Tourist Journalists and the 1991 European Museum Award....
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Knickers on the line
A security notice spotted in Birmingham University's sports centre fails to mention missing wallets - but advises people not to leave their underwear hanging up, due to thefts.
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Lang launch
A guide to better communication skills for scientists and engineers called Going Public has been launched by Ian Lang, President of the Board of Trade.
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Park builds on Wallace and Grommit
Institutions in the south west are creating a united front - but they are not necessarily all doing the same thing. An eight-year-old scheme to build Britain's largest science park on the outskirts...
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Notes to pull heart-strings
Aisling Irwin and Juliet Vickery report from the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Birmingham The indefinable artistry that makes one musician's performance more moving than...
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Ward heads colleges body
Roger Ward, former chief executive of the Colleges Employers Forum, is to head the new further education body, the Association of Colleges. The combative negotiator was picked unanimously from a four...
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Laudy laudy
So how much do academics really value awards and prizes? Recently overheard from one much garlanded professor, discussing the importance he placed on one particular item in his collection: "That's...
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Desert plants yield climatic secrets
Aisling Irwin and Juliet Vickery report from the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Birmingham. Secrets about ancient desert farming, which will be a new source of information...
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True intentions cannot be hidden
The joint planning group on the single agency for quality assurance in higher education wants to nationalise the universities. Its intentions are apparent all along the line in the detailed proposals...
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Labour pledge on research units
Hopes that a Labour government would rescue the Office of Science and Technology from the Department of Trade and Industry were diminished yesterday when Labour said that it would only "review" the...
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Image set for a polish
Engineering courses cannot recruit. A campaign to promote engineering as exciting, relevant and remunerative was launched last week. Engineering is regarded by many students as dull, routine and...
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Pecs win readers
A handy tip for those trying to promote science to the public comes this week from New Scientist, which displayed its front covers to a conference in Cambridge and then revealed which had sold the...
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Mothers blamed for eight-year-old dieters
Aisling Irwin and Juliet Vickery report from the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Birmingham. Children as young as eight years old are being influenced by their mothers' dieting...