Game's up for UCEA
Employers are in disarray and staff would get a better deal if they were unified, argues David Triesman. For an energetic advocate of national bargaining in higher education, it is painful to...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Mark Griffiths argued that letter writing can improve academics' career prospects. Mark Bennett Reader in developmental psychology University of Dundee. It seems hardly...
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Sickness subject to status
It isn't wealth that's good for our health but income equality and friendship, writes Richard Wilkinson. Societies with a wider income gap between rich and poor tend to have lower standards of health...
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Why we... believe the internet can enhance psychology
In 1948 researchers from Pennsylvania State College found that the majority of people they surveyed put psychology at the bottom of a list of careers they would like their children to go into. Forty...
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Bigwigs' brutal pasts spark campus fury
Nigeria is appointing many of its former heads of state - some of them linked to brutal military regimes - as pro chancellors of its 34 universities. Tunde Adeniran, the minister of education, said...
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TV company accused of manipulating experiment
Social scientists at Aberdeen University have accused the company behind the BBC's social experiment Castaway 2000 of creating heroes and villains to conceal their own manipulative, behind-the-scenes...
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UK image tainted by the stains in Spain
Britain's international academic reputation suffered a further blow this week when the Quality Assurance Agency expressed doubts about universities' overseas activities. In an audit of Britain's...
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Studying the passed
Excrement is a growing area in archaeology. Miles Russell explains the power of poo. Ever stopped to think about poo? I do not mean in a deviant way (though obviously that is entirely your...
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Cutting edge: Pamela Briggs
What is the nature of the perfect relationship and can it be recreated in virtual forms? Is the internet a blessing or a curse? Is face-to-face interaction suffering as a result? Two recent US...
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Drawing some young blood
The man who once said that Spanish science was in a 'critical state' will now lead its biggest research body. Rebecca Warden reports. Rolf Tarrach's reaction to being appointed head of Spain's...
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Geologists await quake
A Himalayan earthquake that could result in unprecedented loss of human life is overdue, according to geologists. They have calculated that a swath of territory along a 600km line stretching from...
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Cell success gives hope
A way to turn embryonic stem cells into the cells at the heart of the immune system raises the prospect of new cancer therapies and improved transplant technology. Paul Fairchild, Herman Waldman,...
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Profit and a pointless loss
In 1888, the Tasmanian government offered a bounty on the thylacine 'tiger'. Bob Paddle charts a tragic extinction. In unseasonably early spring weather for Hobart, the last known thylacine died of...
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More than ping-pong
Scotland's first chair of community education knows how difficult the informal learning route can be - he left school without a single qualification. Ted Milburn talks to Olga Wojtas. Ted Milburn,...
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Star Turn: Robert Taylor
Sue Law meets a charismatic lecturer who enlivens relativity with doses of Star Trek . Complex equations and abstract concepts may not sound the most promising material for a lively lecture. But...