London strikers face the sack
BRITAIN'S longest running further education dispute took a turn for the worse this week as managers issued an ultimatum to 160 striking lecturers telling them to return to work or be sacked. Dorothy...
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Scots rush to bedside drama
MORE THAN 100 Taysiders have signed up to star in their own version of the hospital drama ER in a bid to help medical students improve their bedside manner. Medical schools have traditionally built...
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Economic and Social Research Council's programme on Economic Beliefs and Behaviour
THE Economic and Social Research Council's Pounds 1.5 million programme on Economic Beliefs and Behaviour was launched in 1994 and is scheduled to be completed next year. More than 50 papers covering...
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Home budgeting a complex task
COMPUTER simulations of how people manage their money are providing sociologists at Surrey University with new insights into household expenditure. Researcher Edmund Chattoe says the process of...
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Babies' breathing could give cot death clues
SLEEPING babies are to have their breathing measured as part of a study into cot death. Researchers at Leicester University want to find out whether babies become less sensitive to changes in oxygen...
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Schizophrenia coping strategies examined
SOUTHAMPTON University researchers are studying how patients with schizophrenia and their families have coped over a 15-year period. Half of schizophrenia patients live in the community, but...
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Big companies becoming greener
LARGE UK corporations are already introducing the kind of "green" policies that environmental pressure groups are calling for, researchers at Middlesex University's business school have found. A...
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Laser may bring an end to diving the depths
NEW laser techniques developed by Aberdeen University could soon allow previously unreachable oil and gas deposits to be exploited. William Deans and John Watson, of Aberdeen's engineering department...
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Why shoppers prefer to buy yellow chickens
OFFER a group of 50 supermarket shoppers a shelf full of chickens identical in every way, except that one of them is yellow, and ask which they would choose. Even in the knowledge that the colour has...
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Research fraud net widens
More scientists are being drawn into investigations into the biggest research fraud ever uncovered in the German scientific community. The University of Freiburg is now investigating allegations that...
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Lettori break ranks
Foreign language teachers struggling for equal treatment with mainstream academics are split over who should represent them. Of the estimated 1,300 lettori employed in Italy's 65 state universities,...
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Survivor presses on with reform
Vasily Strazhev, the Belarussian minister of education, is a political survivor. In a republic where the authoritarian rule of Alexander Lukashenko punishes the slightest dissent, Strazhev, a physics...
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New battle in philosophy war
Mainstream philosophers have blocked the academic career paths of four would-be lecturers from France's leading anti-establishment philosophy department at Paris VIII University. Antagonism between...
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Delhi faces penalties over caste job targets
India'S University Grants Committee is to penalise universities which fail to comply with its policy of positive discrimination in favour of lower-caste teachers. Their grant will be sharply reduced...
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Troubled campus slammed
THE University of Durban-Westville was described as "ungovernable" by former vice chancellor Jairam Reddy on the eve of his departure to head South Africa's national commission on higher education. A...