Handling the genetic hot potatoes
Are genetically modified foods safe? Derek Burke, a former regulator, discusses the evidence and the risks Genetically modified foods have been entering British supermarkets over the past year. The...
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Don's Diary
Tuesday High days and holy days. For Degree Congregations Day One I choose jacket with firm top button so as not to be strangled by hood of academic dress (presumably designed with the male shirt in...
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Sorbonne sores are soothed
This has been a year of celebrations. The French have taken to the beaches with happy memories of their World Cup soccer triumph. The educational value of the tournament is something to think about....
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World beckons the narrow horizoned
Student friends talk wistfully about travelling around the world once their exams have finished, and a few of them even do it. I always ask why, plaintively, as I scrub them out of my social life for...
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Chairs
University of Manchester David Langslow, lecturer in Latin philology and linguistics at University of Oxford, chair of classics; Elaine Graham, senior lecturer-elect, Samuel Ferguson chair of social...
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Honorary degrees
University of Ulster DLitt: Keith Kyle, professor and reporter on the BBC's Panorama programme; Catherine McGuinness, Dublin High Court judge, chair of the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation, member...
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Close encounter
(Photograph) - Cambridge University's Amateur Dramatic Club publicise their performance of Ticklebang at the Edinburgh Festival. The comedy, by Dillon Ritson, the winner of the 1997 Guardian...
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Scientist ousted over altered food claim
A scientist who warned that his unpublished research raised the possibility that genetically modified food might damage human health was suspended this week by the Rowett Research Institute in...
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HEFCE consults on health research
The problem of assessing the quality of broad areas of health-related research could be solved by setting up sub-panels beneath the main assessment panels, writes Alison Goddard. The Higher Education...
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AUT slams GTC proposals
The government's plans for a General Teaching Council amount to little more than a toothless organisation that is unconnected with higher education, university teachers argued this week. Responding...
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Fear for medical merit rises
Patients are to have a greater say in deciding which medical doctors receive bonus payments, the government announced this week. But the Council of Heads of Medical Schools is cautioning that the...
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The ACU in Ottawa
The Association of Commonwealth Universities holds its five-yearly conference for chancellors, vice-chancellors and chairs of council in Ottawa this week. About 600 representatives from more than 470...
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Commonwealth studies are for the good of all
Pat Caplan says the Association for Commonwealth Studies will not be a club but a way of fostering understanding in many fields Why choose 1998 to launch an Association for Commonwealth Studies and...
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Partners mapping the future
Secretary-general Chief Emeka Anyaoku outlines the crucial role of higher education in expanding the association, promoting its fundamental democratic values and broadening its vision Since the...
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Commission on Commonwealth Studies
'There is an urgent need to bring Commonwealth studies up to date, reflecting the evolution of the Commonwealth into a truly polycentric association, in order that teaching, research and skilling can...