Crimebusting for Colombia
Colombia will need a collective change in values as well as its current programme of judicial reforms if its endemic violence - with a per capita murder rate almost ten times that of the United...
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Jose Escobar and Alvaro Tirado Mejia outside Senate House, University of London
(Photograph) - Looking up: Jose Escobar (left), general secretary of the Colombian justice department, and Alvaro Tirado Mejia, professor at the National University of Colombia, outside Senate House...
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Lecturer fights for 'rejected' offspring
An honorary senior lecturer at Glasgow University is urging the medical faculty to revise its admissions procedure after his academically qualified son was rejected as a prospective student. Brian O'...
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Getting chemistry right
The blueprint for a broadened chemistry PhD could be a trailblazer for the other sciences, according to the Royal Society of Chemistry. At its annual chemical congress at Heriot-Watt University,...
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Science for all seasons
Future research spending must give much more support to interdisciplinary work, Sir William Stewart, the Government's chief scientist, said this week. He said a research assessment exercise more...
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Why blacks suffer rough justice
Black people face differential treatment at almost every stage of the criminal justice system, and a new study by researchers at Warwick University will be looking into why. The study will try to...
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Cryopreservation
(Photograph) - Frozen moment: Erica Benson, of the University of Abertay and Barbara Reed from the United States department of agriculture examine blackcurrant shoots being used to examine the...
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Cool hands work on crop probe
Scottish and American scientists are collaborating in deep-freeze research which could underpin the future breeding of new varieties of food crops. The University of Abertay Dundee is coordinating...
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Crater holds Earth clues
Geologists at Imperial College, London are to lead an international effort by scientists to discover the shape and structure of the largest known crater on Earth. The Chicxulub crater, in Mexico is...
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Edinburgh University's professorial husband and wife
(Photograph) - Edinburgh University's professorial husband and wife team, molecular biologist Sir Kenneth Murray and molecular geneticist Noreen Murray, will receive a twin double honour this summer...
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Welsh FE grows despite squeeze
Further education in Wales has been described as bouyant after nearly Pounds 150 million was awarded to colleges for an 8 per cent expansion next year. But the squeeze on providers to become more...
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Funders ask about peer pressure
Welsh further education colleges are being consulted on whether they want peer evaluation to become a formal part of the quality assessment process, writes David Charter. In practice, the views of...
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Daylight robery
Durham University is anxiously asking whether anybody's chancellor is improperly dressed. The chancellors were out in force at the Queen's awards for higher education at Buckingham Palace earlier in...
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Fair exchange
Mind you, the unwary might have concluded that the PSA had taken to including ratings of speakers in lieu of their institutions in the programme list issued for last week's annual conference at York...
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All for nought
"Political Studies Association in political correctness split storm shock". Well not exactly. One or two people, notably Philip Norton, professor of politics at Hull University, did get rather...