Phosphate remedy for acid lake
Environmental scientists have found a paradoxical way of solving the problem of acidic lakes - by adding to them a substance that causes the other major environmental lake problem, eutrophication....
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Machine, mend thyself
A Pounds 5.1 million British-Finnish initiative is developing automated production lines whose machine tools are sufficiently intelligent to diagnose their own faults. The European Union-funded...
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Welsh dust reveals light-fingered felons
Researchers at the University of Wales in Swansea are helping in the fight against crime by developing a new type of powder to uncover fingerprints. Prints found at the scene of a crime are not...
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Youths face gambling lure
Seven years of research into gambling addiction has concluded that up to 6 per cent of adolescents could become pathologically addicted to slot machines. The research, published this week, highlights...
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Clue to Down's heart riddle
Molecular geneticists at Imperial College have provided a clue to what goes wrong when babies with Down's syndrome are born with heart defects. Nearly half of all babies with the syndrome are born...
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Alarm over student suicides
Students are at "special risk" from stress-induced suicide because of fears over unemployment and subsequent "failure", a social work expert warned this week. The financial pressures facing today's...
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Payment by results looms
Welsh universities and colleges would be paid by results under plans being considered by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales. The possible introduction of an "output" element in the Welsh...
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Scottish mentor scheme scrapped
The Scottish Office Education Department has scrapped its controversial mentor scheme for student teachers less than three months after it was postponed until next year. There has been hostility both...
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Islands on high cost road to success
Setting up a federal University of the Highlands and Islands may require funding of up to Pounds 110 million by the end of the century, according to one of its leading champions. Robin Lingard,...
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Chancellor choice queried
(Photograph) - The debate over the election and role of the university chancellor was gaining momentum this week at Huddersfield University, which has been without one since last December. The search...
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Fears grow over rush to publish
Huw Richards, in the third part of our series on the Research Assessment Exercise, examines book production. A deluge of new books is likely in the first quarter of 1996 as publishers respond to the...
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College challenges tribunal verdict
Northumberland College decided this week to appeal against an industrial tribunal which awarded one of its lecturers Pounds 30,000 damages after he was called an "Irish prat" by a colleague....
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Chips down for old Soviet-bloc clerics
Cutbacks in spending by the Church of England could endanger a scholarship scheme for clerics and theological students from the former Communist bloc, according to Canon Michael Bordeaux. He raised...
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Hedgehogs
(Photograph) - Road hog: of 12 hedgehogs released and radio-tracked in the wild, one died in a motoring accident, one was eaten by badgers, one died of a fatal snout injury and another of pneumonia....
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu
(Photograph) - Debut for Disco Des: former King's College London theology student, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, gazes with amusement at a three-times larger than life sculpture of himself, which is to...