Time runs out for station Mir
SPACE FOR RENT OR TO LET: Russian-built space station. 4 reception rooms, 2 bedrooms. Built in the Gorbachev era to full Soviet standards. Internal decoration and some external work required. Faulty...
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Why I ...believe we should take sit-ins over tuition fees to Westminster
Justine Stephens General secretary Goldsmiths College student union We sat in the Department for Education and Employment for four and a half hours last Friday and were then offered the chance to...
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Readers' reactions
Last month in The THES... Frank Furedi argued that bureaucracy has killed the spirit of academics David Yeomans Liverpool University What research has gone into the validating of the bureaucratic...
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Wider access
Birmingham-based internet services provider DIALnet is to launch initiatives aimed at increasing broadband net access for further education colleges, widening teaching resources and providing free...
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Deadly colours of caterpillars
A team of Stirling University scientists hopes to solve the mystery of why an African species of caterpillar changes colour in crowded conditions. The African army worm is a major pest in East Africa...
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Approaching a cure for croup
Scottish scientists believe they are a step closer to wiping out one of the world's most distressing childhood conditions, after winning a grant from an American drugs company to develop new drugs...
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Technology drive by new coalition
Austria's ruling parties have made technology and innovation a priority and have put a controversial figure in charge. Michael Gardner reports Headlines around the world have focused on the arrival...
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Dreams, dogs, design
John Wood asks students to take on a persona when writing projects, to dream in the written, not just the visual form. Jennifer Currie hears his ideas John Wood has every reason to be pleased. He has...
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Agony aunt
Q A tutor in our department suffers from BO. We had ignored the problem, but a student has complained that seminars are intolerable. What should we do? A First, consider who has what problem. The...
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Caution
Universities have been advised to beef up their network security procedures after a wave of commercially destructive attacks on popular websites in the United States last week. The computer attacks...
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'Dogs' to be 'shot' at UCE
A radical policy to cut drop-out rates at the University of Central England could block access and lead to large-scale course closures, academics fear. One dean interpreted the policy as meaning that...
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Death knell rings for Ismail?
(Photograph) - Hundreds of students marched through Oxford this week in protest against the abolition of the maintenance grant and the introduction of tuition fees. Of more than 100 Oxford students...
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Mining starts Cornish explosion
Camborne School of Mines will move 15 miles to help form the hub of a new campus under the latest scheme for a Cornish university. Earth science, mining and engineering courses at Camborne will join...
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Three tiers for Blunkett's plan
Universities face their biggest challenge in 35 years as the government this week opened the door to institutional diversity, vocational foundation degrees, e-universities and differentiated tuition...
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Probe into business of qualification checks
The Data Protection Registrar's Office is intending to probe the relationship between the Higher Education Statistics Agency and Experian, which plans to run a commercial service to check whether job...