Scoring against the bookies
A pair of football-crazy researchers have created a computer code which seems to beat the bookies at their own game. Research associate Mark Dixon and postgraduate student Michael Robinson have...
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Funding obstacle to fusion
United States fusion research may be hitting serious funding problems just as scientists' hopes are rising of producing commercially viable energy within 30 years, the American Association for the...
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Plants plus water is a powerful recipe
A limitless supply of energy from ordinary water could be a reality within five years. It would work by harnessing technology that appears, ready-made, in plant and algae cells. The method could also...
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Gene test will cut animal research
A test being developed by scientists at the University of Paisley promises to help pharmaceutical firms avoid using animals to try new drugs for the treatment of angina, toxic poisoning and other...
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Mechanical arm fits like glove
People whose arms are paralysed could have their lives transformed by a Pounds 900,000 European project to create a mechanical arm. Newcastle University, the University of Abertay Dundee (UAD) and...
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GPs help to train London doctors
London University medical schools are collaborating with GPs in a Pounds 20-million education programme to help improve undergraduate teaching. Moves for more community medical education are taking...
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Professor on the right track
Happy the academic who can say "If I'd written my own job description, I'd have come up with something like this". Colin Divall will still be subject to such blights on life as research selectivity,...
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Muslim course network collapses
West Midlands colleges have been advised to be extra cautious about course franchising after the collapse of a Birmingham community class network. The warning came from the Further Education Funding...
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Economy at risk from cash cuts
The threat to higher education quality from underfunding imperils the entire Scottish economy, the Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals has warned. COSHEP has made a submission to the...
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Deaf blind gene is isolated
Scientists announced yesterday that they have identified a gene responsible for one of the major forms of deaf blindness. The disease, Usher syndrome type 1b, causes children to be born deaf and...
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Loophole
(Photograph) - Loophole: final-year law students Nichola Carter and Robert Borwick of Plymouth University prepare to offer free legal services to the public through the Free Representation Unit of...
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Statistics hide graduate jobs gulf
The removal of the binary line seems to have benefited graduates of the new universities, as the latest Government figures show employment prospects improving more quickly for them than for graduates...
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Boot goes in
But what was the question? The British Medical Association's news review includes a column in which Carol Cooper "clears up those thorny matters of etiquette that so often trouble GPs". The final...
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Car perk
Summing up the mild confusion felt by many on beholding the term "staff development" - nobody knows exactly what it is, but at the same time few question that it is a Good Thing - comes the following...
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King's seal
A political straw in the wind? Essex professor of politics Anthony King, long famously sceptical about Labour's electoral chances and given to seminar papers asking "Can Labour Win?", recently...