Latvians under fire for essays' race jibes
An essay competition for young Latvians has caused a political storm with critics branding it chauvinistic and anti-Russian. Critics claim the entries, collated into a book by the Vieda publishing...
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Japanese scholars face minor revolution
In most industrial countries universities compete for the best scholars and researchers knowing that their presence will bring prestige and cash. Not so in Japan. All 99 national universities receive...
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UK allots cash to fight Aids epidemic
The British government has given the Association of Commonwealth Universities £100,000 to help combat the effects of Aids and HIV on higher education in the Commonwealth. Although the Commonwealth...
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Enterprising US students are sold on university life
Two teenagers have convinced an American bank to sponsor their way through the first year of university, to the tune of $40,000 each (£28,000), in return for becoming corporate "student ambassadors...
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Firm sets up hi-tech summer school
A summer school on high technology has attracted so many applications from researchers worldwide that less than half can be accommodated. Of the 200 applicants, only 85 will be able to attend the...
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Technocentre wins millennium funding
A centre of excellence for architecture and the built environment commemorating black race-hate victim Stephen Lawrence is to be built in southeast London, writes Tim Greenhalgh. The construction of...
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Bid to train third world online gets A$200m
The Australian government has committed A$200 million (£73 million) to a World Bank plan to offer education and skills training to developing countries via the internet. The scheme was launched by...
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High-tech alone will not catch out cheats
Electronic methods of detecting plagiarism are not a magic solution, a new report warns. A good-practice guide prepared for the Joint Information Systems Committee says that electronic communication...
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Readers' reactions
Last month in The THES Peter Collett argues that Big Brother was more than a game show. Big Brother is a phenomenal media event deserving our scholarly attention, and perhaps it does present unique...
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Get a result or accept defeat
If Scotland sees a repeat of last year's results debacle, it could destroy the country's Higher Still qualifications system, warns David Raffe. Next Tuesday (August 14) candidates are due to receive...
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Why I ...recommend the the joys of obfuscation
Obfuscation and a lack of clarity can be useful for academic authors. The more confused and unclear your style, the more chance you have of convincing at least some readers that what you have to say...
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Size is not everything
A merged AUT-Natfhe would be big, but it might lack coherence, argues Philip Burgess. A single union for higher education is one thing, but a merger between the Association of University Teachers and...
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You need tunnel vision to spend summer here
Why are particle physicists from all over the world converging on a three-and-a-half-mile tunnel in Illinois? In the third in our series on what researchers do in summer, Terry Wyatt reports from...
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Tevatron: how, what and why
In the Tevatron, protons and their antimatter equivalents, antiprotons, are accelerated at high energies in opposite directions around a three-and-a-half-mile loop. Scientists - including Wyatt -...
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Cutting edge
The hip but scarcely respectable art of tattooing deserves to be written up not written off, argues Nicholas Thomas Tattooing has been practised in many parts of the world at many times, and today is...