A testimony that you can bank on
Despite a clampdown on the use of expert witnesses in courts, academics with the right connections can still clean up. Phil Baty reports Academics, experts in their field, are often invited to give...
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Turning the page on a bookselling tradition
Online retailer Swotbooks.com plans to revolutionise the student textbook market. Anne Sebba reports Imagine being a law student, told you must buy a Pounds 40 textbook, but you will only need...
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Faculty votes to kill off institute
An institute at Baylor University in Texas that aimed to unite the study of science and religion has ended up dividing it. Faculty have demanded by a vote of 26 to two that the programme should be...
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Madrid
Two women will hold key posts in education and research in Spain's new government. Pilar del Castillo, former head of the Centre of Sociological Research, is minister of education and Anna Birules,...
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Johannesburg
Two-million-year-old fossilised remains of two ancient hominids identified as Paranthropus robustus have been discovered by scientists of the University of the Wi****ersrand, five miles north of the...
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Durban
Thirty-seven academics at the University of Durban-Westville, whose posts were abolished earlier this year, have been told that they will be redundant within days. They are being given six months'...
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EU gives UK overseas boost
The European Union provides just under half of all overseas students in United Kingdom universities. In the academic year 1998-99, 219,285 overseas students were registered, 11.9 per cent of all...
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Lord Dearing is chancellor of the University of Nottingham
Lord Dearing is chancellor of the University of Nottingham, not vice-chancellor as we said in a picture caption on April 28.
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Ile-Ife
Rogers Makanjuola, vice-chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife town, Nigeria, was shot when his car was caught up in protests over the relocation of local government headquarters....
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Beijing
Chinese authorities have released Chen Lantao, a former university researcher and marine biologist, who was serving an 18-year prison sentence for denouncing the military assault on Tiananmen...
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Unpaid slog sustains research
Unpaid overtime is sustaining higher education, according to early results from the Treasury-driven transparency review of spending in British universities and colleges. Institutions that have...
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DTI gives part-time workers equal rights
Ministers have expanded rules on part-time workers' rights to include the 100,000 part-time lecturers employed by agencies. The Department of Trade and Industry published Part-time Workers'...
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Genome project enters the final stage
Scientists involved in the international Human Genome Project have entered the final phase of their project to decode the genetic book of life. The experts based at 16 centres worldwide are close to...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES. Lucy Aitkens argued that employers should recruit Oxbridge graduates. I contest the argument that Oxbridge graduates are "the best" for employers to recruit. Employers only...
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Don's diary
Monday Most of our fellow passengers on the Glasgow to Amsterdam flight are heading for Camp Zeist and the trial of the Libyans accused of the Lockerbie bombing. For the six of us from the University...