Euro-Arab university lift-off
Granada in southern Spain is to play host to a new university with a difference. The Euro-Arab University, opening in October, is designed to act as an academic bridgehead between Europe and the Arab...
Granada in southern Spain is to play host to a new university with a difference. The Euro-Arab University, opening in October, is designed to act as an academic bridgehead between Europe and the Arab...
The search for crops that can survive the increasingly salty soils of some developing countries has taken a step forward. A researcher has produced a highly nutritious plant that can live in 50 per...
Preventing cot death is the aim of a Pounds 450,000 specialist unit established at Bristol University's Institute of Child Health. Supported by The Foundation for Study of Infant Death and the Anne...
The Levant coastline, stretching from Egypt to the Syrian/Turkish border, boasts some of the best beaches in the Mediterranean. Gently sloping shorelines, clear skies, deep sand, warm waters, hot...
A Dundee University psychology graduate has won a Pounds 20,000 studentship from the Economic and Social Research Council for a three-year investigation into the development of blind babies. Julie...
A simple test is being developed that will allow the medical implications of long-term alcohol consumption to be assessed, writes Rifat Malik. Currently, blood alcohol tests can only measure alcohol...
Do Scottish students drop out or not take up courses because of hardship or lack of support? The THES asked some. A Scottish helpline to match Highers results against course vacancies has revealed...
Scottish pupils are achieving better qualifications, with almost half of the 1993 school-leavers staying in full time education, according to Raymond Robertson, Scottish Office minister for education...
Universities and schools are investing time and money to encourage pupils to apply to higher education. Yet, those pupils who find themselves in academic difficulties are complaining that the support...
A chance meeting with Michael Young, founder of the Open University, at the University of Botswana's extra-mural department in 1975 sealed the fate of Mary Thorpe, who is the new and first female...
Yes, Minister! and Alan Clark's Diaries may give the impression that the workings of British government are widely understood, but in fact the field is one of the black holes of academic knowledge....
A mathematical technique first developed in Britain in the early 1760s is now a hot favourite in helping forensic scientists tackle the shortcomings in their work. Called "Bayesian inference" after...
A detailed study of household hygiene habits has led economists from Leicester University to predict that domestic water use in south and eastern England will rise by an average 40 per cent over the...
A key player in the Government's heavily criticised privatisation of the Skills Training Agency in 1990 has now admitted that the move was a failure. At the time of its sell-off, STA boasted a...
Water companies should have to pay for the water they take, says a Middlesex University academic. And they should install water-saving devices free of charge in their customers' homes. This would...