Climate clues in sunken forest
An 8,000-year-old submerged forest on the north coast of the Isle of Wight is helping scientists predict the effects of climate change. At the foot of Bouldnor Cliff, also underwater, are root...
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Push to improve minorities' care
Researchers at the Mary Seacole Research Centre of De Montfort University are developing a training module to help healthcare professionals better serve ethnic minority groups. "It is clear from our...
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Titanic romance woos women
Titanic put women and children first in more ways than one, said Peter Kramer, lecturer in film studies at the University of East Anglia. It was a brief return to big-budget Hollywood films aimed at...
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Barred of Avon
Were Dermot Sheils and John Holland sacked by Stratford-upon-Avon College because they are disabled? Staff at the college and both men's trade unions fear so. Mr Sheils's and Mr Holland's employment...
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Leicester wants tribunal cases kept quiet
An attempt to stop press coverage of a sex harassment industrial tribunal case has been lodged by the University of Leicester. Leicester is facing at least five employment tribunal cases in which...
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Don's Diary
Monday The snow clouds have cleared. This morning, I can spot the distant Caucasus mountains to the south. Sergej collects me in the office Lada and we are off across town to Nasledie (Heritage), the...
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In the news
Ten years ago, the Nobel prizewinning biologist David Baltimore was embroiled in a dispute dubbed "A Scientific Watergate" by The New York Times. This week, he attends the American Association for...
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The THES Diary
Conference off target A rare chance to quiz the Treasury on future public services funding was dangled before delegates to last week's Institute for Public Policy Research conference in London - and...
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Glittering prizes
Sir Hans Kornberg, professor of biology at Boston University, will receive the honorary degree of doctor of laws from the University of Dundee in recognition of his contribution to the development of...
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On the move
Five reappointments have been made to the Education Funding Council for Wales to ensure the council has stability during its transition to the National Assembly of Wales. Asked in the House of...
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Washington
The United States government has imposed sanctions on three leading Russian higher education institutions accused of supplying nuclear missile technology to Iran. Links with the institutions have...
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Eye witness
Restoration and conservation of works of art is far from an exact science. Last year controversy erupted over plans to restore Michelangelo's sculpture group, Victory, in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio,...
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A place to spot the future
Chris Gamble, first woman director of Chatham House, says the institute will be stronger in the 21st century Foreign secretary Robin Cook has witheringly described Chatham House as "a social forum...
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Universities pull out of national pay board
Industrial relations are in the balance following the withdrawal of five of Australia's biggest universities from their national negotiating arm and the resignation of its chief executive, Russell...
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Nigerian v-cs face end-of-term test
Many Nigerian universities about to appoint vice-chancellors are faced with interpreting a military decree of the late General Abacha, who responded to campus protests against violation of human...