It might be imperfect and infuriating...
...but for all its faults, the RAE might be the best way of distributing funds, says Mike Edmunds The spectre of the research assessment exercise hangs over the UK university world. Heads of...
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Old softies get a buff and grind
Ancient invertebrates are hard to study but, Geoff Watts reports, computers and recycled car parts can help palaeontologists view the structures of soft-bodied creatures Spade, trowel, hammer and...
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EU adds ethics to Framework
The EU's 6th Framework Programme is likely to cut funds to experiments using primates and to marine science. Keith Nuthall reports Hints about the likely shape of the European Union's 6th Framework...
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Aceh rector shot dead as guerrilla tension flares
Compared with the carnage in New York, it was a small act of terrorism. Dayan Dawood, rector of Syiah Kuala University in Banda Aceh, was heading back from the campus through the centre of town in...
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Bilston heads may sue 'vengeful' council
Former heads of Bilston Community College are considering legal action against funding chiefs over allegations of fraud. The move follows the conclusion of a two-year police investigation, instigated...
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Sudden exit for Oxford master
Sir Peter Williams, tipped as the next vice-chancellor of Oxford University, has announced after just 18 months that he is to leave his post as master of St Catherine's College. The announcement has...
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Latest UK news
Hodge signals review of student support Higher education minister Margaret Hodge has said that the range of financial help for poor people to enter higher education is an “absolute nightmare” and...
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Latest international news
Canadian universities access online journals Sixty-four Canadian universities have agreed to spend C$47 million (£20 million) over three years on nationwide site licenses for online scholarly...
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From today's UK papers
Independent If free babysitting were paid for, it would be an economic activity greater than the output of the UK's recession-hit manufacturing base, according to the government statistical agency...
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Digging up dirt and DNA
Martin Jones tells Chris Bunting about the event that changed the face of modern archaeology as well as his own career. About 15 years ago, Martin Jones realised that archaeology was about to change...
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Mind, matter and the search for the 'self'
In our series on Big Science Questions, Keith Sutherland looks at conflicting explanations of consciousness and asks how close we are to the 'final frontier'. Throughout the 1990s - christened the "...
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What you see may not be what you get
Susan Blackmore goes in search of her 'self' and finds that it may just be part of the 'other'. Why am I here? Who am I anyway? Why does everything feel, look and hurt like this? I have been asking...
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"I looked up and saw two people falling. They looked like paper at first. Then I saw the arms. That's when we started to run"
Every US university and college was affected by security concerns and high emotions after the attacks in New York and Washington, but none more so than Pace University. The university, with 10,000...
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America and the world
The THES gauges reactions to the attacks and experts assess what might happen next. AMERICA AND THE WORLD Fred Halliday, professor of international relations, London School of Economics "This won't...
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Misfortune and heroic muddle
Berlioz Remembered