MRes popular
The new masters degree in the theory and practice of research introduced last year on a pilot scale has proved to be more popular than expected, according to science minister Ian Taylor. Research...
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Do not put yourself through the mincer, couch potatoes told
Nanette Mutrie of Glasgow University has a message for the couch potatoes whose New Year resolution is to get fit after the excesses of the festive season: take it easy. Dr Mutrie, senior lecturer in...
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Too many scientists for too few posts
The United Kingdom produces as many science and technology graduates as its competitors, but only a minority opt for a career in science, according to a report by the Institute of Employment Studies...
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Lecturers register record stress levels
Anxiety and depression affect further education lecturers more than they affect the police, vicars and nurses, psychologists have claimed, writes Aisling Irwin. A study of a further education college...
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Cabbage technology
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is to provide Pounds 600,000 for research aimed at developing environmentally friendly technologies. Projects include devices for generating...
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Global greeting
The Natural History Museum is pressing ahead with a Pounds 12 million Development of Earth galleries after winning Pounds 6 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The London museum, which has...
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Powder puff
(Photograph) - Powder puff: The Rake's Progress by Hogarth inspired an exhibition called "Theatre". It includes stage design by students from Central St Martin's and costume design by students from...
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Prostitute professor unrepentant
A part-time professor who admits that he also works as a prostitute will be back in class on Monday. Gerald Hannon, an instructor at Toronto's Ryerson Polytechnic University was suspended at the end...
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Lottery fails to dent giving
Claims that the National Lottery would strangle donations to medical research are contradicted in the 1995 financial results of major research charities. The incomes of the Imperial Cancer Research...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an early work of science fiction by an author who hailed from Bromley: "And strangest of all it is to hold my wife's hand again, and to think that I have counted her...
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Speaking Volumes: Sociolinguistic Patterns
Leslie Milroy on William Labov's Sociolinguistic Patterns . The single most important influence on my thinking and research plans was without doubt provided in 1973 by the recently published book...
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Helping them eat cake
Royal Bounty
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London's very square mile
The City of London
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Meritorious fudge
The Spirit of Community
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To the victors, the obloquy
Armagedon - Germany, Hitler and World War II