Disability theorist Paul Darke (right) has an MA in American literature from Keele and a PhD in film studies from Warwick. His doctorate probed the pernicious stereotyping of disability in films - "...
For disabled academics facingdiscrimination, new figures in The THES speak for themselves. Helen Hague reports. Eleven per cent of adults in work are disabled - but only 1.2 per cent of professors in...
Geneticist Luca Cavalli-Sforza says there is no scientific basis for race. Now his latest project has been attacked for bigotry. Ayala Ochert reports. US President Bill Clinton was full of praise...
At the Centre for Genetic Anthropology, University College London, biologists have been tracing the legacy of Y-chromosomes in the genetic material of modern and ancient peoples living beside the Red...
Adelaide University is to open a new physics facility with what is thought to be the largest supercomputing cluster in the southern hemisphere. The A$3.6 million (Pounds 2.38 million) facility - the...
A graduate show targeted at employers of creative talent is being launched on Monday. "New Blood", at the Atlantis Gallery in Brick Lane, London, will bring together the work of graduates from more...
A new European Union funding programme aimed at boosting e-commerce is set to increase the number of websites hosted in Europe, especially those that use languages other than English. The EU wants to...
The internet may not be the global price-cutting tool it was thought to be, according to a recent study. Erik Brynjolfsson, associate professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management and co-director of...
Ingenta, the Bath University spin-off internet gateway company, is to buy the Publishers Communication Group. PCG provides marketing services to publishers; negotiating electronic licensing...
Wednesday's surprise extra research cash is welcome - even if once again the government is taking credit for spending other people's money. Particularly welcome is the proposed rise in PhD stipends....
Languages are threatened by a new perception of them as just a skill for getting a job, says Michael Kelly Few people doubt the value of learning foreign languages. Surveys show that about 85 per...
The Greenaway report makes the case for differential fees -accompanied by scholarships, bursaries and income-contingent loans - in the most rigorous terms yet. The report's authors, themselves...
No one could be surprised by a vice-chancellor advocating the benefits of local pay bargaining (Soapbox, THES, June 30), but those belonging to an association other than the Committee of Vice-...
How many lecturers really believe that an isolated local union branch could get them a better deal than all branches acting together? Peter Knight claims local pay bargaining would be more flexible...
Few will be surprised by the failure of university teachers to win a substantial pay rise this year. Indeed, it seems unlikely academic salaries will ever catch up with the private sector and that...