Amateur sleuths turn to DNA tests
Gene testing is being used for all sorts of applications, reports Rifat Malik. When scientists developed DNA testing they could not have envisaged its myriad of uses. It can now trace ancestors...
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Firms hit by kneejerk planning
British manufacturing firms innovate because of pressure from the market-place and not as a result of strategies developed by management, a survey has found. According to Michael West, project...
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Colleges hail Highland first
A Highland University now exists at Inverness College, according to Andrew Miller, principal of Stirling University. Twenty-eight students this week graduated in Inverness with Stirling University...
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Pioneer on the move
Salvador Moncada, who pioneered research into the role of nitric oxide in the body, is to quit his job as chief scientist at Wellcome, the drug company that was recently taken over by Glaxo, and move...
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Activists boycott animal forum
A boycott by anti-vivisection groups of a meeting next week aimed at breaking the impasse on animal experimentation has led to fears that only moderates will be represented. Both the British Union...
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Twigging on to modern art
(Photograph) - Twigging on to modern art: Tim Pugh, artist in residence at Nottingham Trent University, gathers material for his latest work, which he plans to use in mosaic form on the floor of the...
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A real knock-out
Alumni to be proud of no 5: credit for Neill Cream, the Lambeth poisoner also regarded by some commentators as an outside candidate for the role of Jack the Ripper, was shared by St Thomas' Hospital...
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Overload
Phone call from the Association of University Teachers: "Could I fax you with details of our new Internet service?"
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Blood transfusion
Stirling University had the excitement of hosting Sunday's premi re of Braveheart, the biopic of Scottish patriot William Wallace. The sight of a galaxy of stars, including Mel Gibson in full...
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Creche course
The tiny tots of Nottingham University mature students had a surprise at the launch of a day nursery this week. There to join them was vice chancellor Colin Campbell. The university says he was there...
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Guess again
Elections expert David Butler's dictum that "experts are no more likely to make accurate predictions, they just get them wrong for more sophisticated reasons" works just as well on the other side of...
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Split winnings
Those who claim the binary line has simply been redrawn between higher and further education will have their suspicions confirmed by the latest grants from the National Lottery. Glasgow University,...
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Doctor course to relieve pressure
Keele University's school of postgraduate medicine is pioneering a degree aimed at prospective consultants in the health service. Brian McGuinness, head of the school's centre for primary health care...
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Greek names tagged
A dusty loft in Oxford's strangest college, All Souls, is where the whacky but worthwhile Lexicon of Greek Personal Names was born more than 20 years ago. Things have moved on and upwards since then...
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Going, going, gong
Sturdy realism still rules among United States academics - at least among the older members of the profession. Overheard in Chicago at the American Political Studies Association meeting was the...