Cap on brain damage
A revolutionary "cooling cap", developed by John Wyatt at University College London, could help to prevent brain damage sustained by babies during difficult births. Complicated deliveries can result...
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Rape beats pollen rap
OILSEED rape is no worse than other pollen plants for causing health problems, say environmental scientists. The bright yellow crop, which has become popular with farmers, has been blamed for...
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Green fingers
(Photograph) - Plymouth College of Further Education students have created an environmental garden at St Andrew's Church of England primary school. The students are taking a two-year BTEC national...
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Fact file
The Higher Education statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: * Male first-degree graduates are almost twice as likely as women to study for a higher degree by research * Female...
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Saving from student loans at risk
Universities responded with alarm this week to news that student tuition fees was not extra money for them A ROW is brewing between education ministers and the Office for National Statistics about...
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Leaving the lab
Scientists are breaking out of the laboratory. Chris Condron talks to two escapees "There is little question that the prospects look good for science graduates, and have done for the past few years...
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Fears as liberated women hit the bottle
Women drinkers on rise A fundamental rethink of the support system for alcoholics is "long overdue", as excess drinking among women begins to catch up with problem drinking levels among men, research...
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Students fall at English hurdle
Failings in Hong Kong's English-language teaching system were highlighted last month with the release of this year's A-level results. Results showed that fewer than half of the 28,899 candidates who...
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Pay rise aims to halt drain
Academics and administrators at the University of Malaya (UM) are to receive pay increases of between 20 and 22.8 per cent when the university becomes a corporation in January 1998. Tuition fees will...
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Porn case triggers Internet alert
AUSTRALIAN universities have warned their staff that improper use of the Internet may lead to disciplinary action, including dismissal. The warning followed a case at the University of Melbourne...
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Crackdown on campus riots
The South Korean government is cracking down on Hanchongnyon, the federation of student organisations it says is responsible for orchestrating the violent demonstrations that have become a regular...
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Greeks split over promotion law
The GREEK academic community is deeply divided over legislation on promotion of university teachers brought finally before the summer session of parliament by the education secretary, Gerasimos...
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Reform is scuppered at 'campus curiosus'
Politics professor Fritz Kratochwil's plan for a school of public and international affairs at Munich University appeared to have all the elements the German higher education reform bill is calling...
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Italy looks to private cash to finance future development
Italy's university minister, Luigi Berlinguer, has called on rectors to draw up plans for university building projects to be financed by private institutions, primarily banks, to ease the burden on...
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Urals embrace business parks
University leaders in the Urals city of Ekaterinburg saw the writing on the wall in the dying days of the Soviet Union and began freeing faculty deans to pursue commercial ventures. Seven...