Private eyes, public mysteries
As Britain's amateur historians puzzle over the identity of Jack the Ripper and theauthorship of Shakespeare's plays, William Rubinstein asks why academics pretend this isn't history. For every...
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Science is the key to combating the unfair in human evolution
In our third look into the 21st century, James Watson predicts that parents will still need to decide whether to abort genetically impaired foetuses. Science fiction writers have long speculated that...
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Three great Unsolved mysteries
JACK THE RIPPER The identity of "Jack the Ripper", the mysterious serial killer who murdered and mutilated five prostitutes in Whitechapel, in London's East End, in 1888, is a remarkable example of...
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Do these genes make me look fat?
When Nobel chemist John Walker joined the Dunn Unit in Cambridge, several nutritionists left. But his work could lead to a cure for obesity. Steve Farrar reports. Not so long ago Sir John Walker...
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How much should a uni get to employ this man?
Disabled academics, who make up just 0.16 per cent of staff at universities, are demanding 'cash carrots' to combat discrimination.Phil Baty reports. Life as a disabled academic is "abominable," says...
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A folk remedy for killer Ebola
Scientists may have found a cure for the deadly Ebola virus in a plant extract used in traditional African medicine, writes Clare Sansom. The rare Ebola fever is one of the most dangerous of viral...
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Englishness: the missing link
Edinburgh University is heading a five-year study into national identity, funded by Pounds 1 million from the Leverhulme Trust. Researchers will be drawn from Aberdeen, Dundee, Lancaster, St Andrews...
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Space agency details solar wind flight
Details of Cluster II, the rerun of the European Space Agency's ill-fated mission to study the interaction between Sun and Earth, were revealed this week. The mission involves four identical...
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Conference calls for full funding
Alan Thomson reports from the Liberal Democrat conference in Harrogate The conference called for the full funding of the Bett committee recommendations on academic salaries and an independent pay...
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Strasbourg
MEP Neil MacCormick, a professor of public law at Edinburgh University, is pressing the European Commission for urgent action over the long-running case of job discrimination against 1,500 foreign-...
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Brisbane
Queensland, Australia, plans to invest Aus$0 million (Pounds 108 million) over ten years to make the state the "biotechnology hub of the Asia Pacific region". Aus$20 million is earmarked for new...
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Focus on hardship, not fees
SCOTLAND. Jane Denholm welcomes Scotland's debate on student privation, but says abolishing fees would not solve the problem and would benefit only those who are well-off. In the past six months,...
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National bureau for students with disabilities
* The contact number given last week for SKILL, the national bureau for students with disabilities, should have read 020 7450 0620.
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Scrap PGCE, save BEd
So primary teaching yet again is seen as being unimportant and not worth funding ("Future bleak for four-year BEds", THES, September 17). How blind can we be? The very foundations of our education...
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CVCP president sets out regional agenda for unis
Alan Thomson reports from the Liberal Democrat conference in Harrogate Vice-chancellor Howard Newby has defended universities' role in regional economies against claims that many remain ivory towers...