Green blueprint for Scots
A 26-PAGE Edinburgh University report printed on 100 per cent recycled paper hopes to encourage other institutions to green their teaching. In 1990, Edinburgh launched a strategy to become more...
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A little and large dose for medical schools
Last week two medical schools merged with Imperial College to form the UK's largest medical school. Soon St George's will be the only free-standing medical school left. Julia Hinde talks to the two...
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The Bard goes north
HOGHTON Tower is an impressive Elizabethan country house in the wetlands to the east of Preston , Lancashire, where it now seems likely that William Shakespeare, under the alias Shakeshafte, spent...
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School probes mole link to cancer
Chris Condron finds balancing sun and sex and avoiding sewage makes summer holidays a risky business PEOPLE with many moles on their skin should follow the example of the tunnelling rodent and keep...
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Antibodies bring cancer treatment hope
RESEARCH from Nottingham University's pharmaceutical sciences department has led to a bladder cancer treatment breakthrough.Scientists have developed antibodies that attack malignant tumours. The...
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National study examines childhood eczema
HUNDREDS of young eczema patients, their parents and dermatologists are to be questioned in the first national audit of how hospitals manage childhood eczema. Hywel Williams, senior lecturer in...
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Campaign aims to end faux pas flushing
RESEARCHERS at the University of Abertay Dundee want the public to do their dirty work in a beach-clean campaign this week on the island of Arran. Nicky Soutar, David Milne and Angus Swain, of the...
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Rise of the cosmopolitan set
IN AN increasingly international world, more students than ever are spending some part of their studies at a university in a country other than their own. But despite a small increase in overall...
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A wealth in common
The university of the future There is something daring, even absurd, about a South African response to Dearing, a major educational report from a country that has been a founder member of higher...
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Cambridge ventures east
MALAYSIA is to set up a Commonwealth University near Kuala Lumpur in a joint venture with Cambridge University, writes David Jobbins. Dato Seri Mohd Najib Tun Adbul Razak, the Malaysian education...
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Polytechnics achieve elite status
MALAYSIAN polytechnics are no longer seen by employers or parents as second-class educational establishments producing second-rate graduates, according to Dato Seri Mohd Najib Tun Abdul Razak, the...
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Coca-Cola deal to face court scrutiny
A student newspaper istaking the University of British Columbia to court in an effort to unlock details of a confidential advertising agreement with Coca-Cola. Two years ago, the university was...
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Minister backs full-fee plans
THE introduction of full fees for some Australian students next year will strengthen the nation's universities, according to federal education minister AmandaVanstone. The minister told a conference...
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Waseda hunts for graduates
Waseda University, one of Japan's oldest and most prestigious private institutions, has applied to the ministry of education in Tokyo for permission to open a new graduate school. The school will...
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Gagging order sticks in academic craw
ITALIAN academics are in uproar over a gagging order issued by the academic senate of Rome's La Sapienza University following the murder of a student. The university, the biggest in Europe, has...