Law students win case
Law students from Northern Ireland have won their case in the Irish Republic. The high court in Dublin ruled after a complex two-month case that the Law Society in the Republic has been...
Law students from Northern Ireland have won their case in the Irish Republic. The high court in Dublin ruled after a complex two-month case that the Law Society in the Republic has been...
Nutritionists are so plagued by pressures from industry, governments and funding agencies that their science would appear "unacceptably relativist" to other disciplines, according to Prakash Shetty,...
As Parliament resumes this week, a growing consensus on further and higher education policies is emerging as the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats unveil their ideas for the future of...
Medical schools have welcomed National Health Service funding arrangements for medical and dental students despite uncertainty over finance for expansion. Health minister Gerald Malone has confirmed...
Glaxo Wellcome is giving a further Pounds 7 million to London's new strategic medical research institute this week for work on the role nitric oxide plays in sending messages through the central...
Otter droppings and grouse feathers will allow scientists to help Scottish wildlife conservationists. An ecological molecular genetics laboratory opened this week at Aberdeen University, bringing...
Huw Richards, in the first of a four-part series, evaluates the impact of the Research Assessment Exercise for 1996. The Research Assessment Exercise enters its fourth incarnation next year amid...
On his best orotund form in giving his talk at the Institute of Historical Research, Lord Jenkins found time to comment on other political figures as well as Gladstone. Focusing on his successor Lord...
If biographers leave their imprint on their subjects, the converse is equally true. Shortly after telling a seminar about Gladstone's formidable, long-lived energy the 74-year-old Lord Jenkins was...
At last a use for all the material that never made it into the research assessment exercise? This week the Friends of Dundee University's botanic garden organised a lecture by "alternative" floral...
(Photograph) - Brushes with Basil: controversial sociologist Basil Bernstein received two Festschrifts, collections of essays on the influence of his ideas at a celebration at the University of Wales...
Alumni to be proud of no 14: Robert Watters, proprietor of Rick's, the Houston, Texas strip-bar whose past patrons have included O. J. Simpson, Sting and President Bush's 1992 Republican convention...
Maxwell Irvine, principal of Aberdeen University, may be moving to a larger institution when he becomes vice chancellor of Birmingham University next year, but will he be such a celebrated local...
A Conservative student union president is taking legal action against her union for unfair dismissal after she lost a motion of no confidence two weeks into her term of office. The motion accused...
Howard Newby, vice chancellor of Southampton University and a member of the Rural Development Commission, has welcomed the Government White Paper on rural England, published this week, as a "step in...