Umbrella body is to open libraries to wider public
The government has set up a national body for libraries, museums and archives that should bring greater cooperation between university and public libraries. Fred Friend, director of scholarly...
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The THES Diary
Wealthy and wise Dame Barbara Cartland was only too happy to oblige when the Royal Society of Arts invited her, along with other prominent figures, to comment on what "wealth" means to her for an...
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Horses on course for Nikes
Horses might soon be queuing up for the latest Nike Air trainers, say researchers at De Montfort University. They are about to launch a major research programme to study the links between physical...
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Butterfly colours set for camouflage
The wings of iridescent butterflies are shaped like Christmas trees and this gives the creatures their colours, according to researchers at the University of Exeter. Butterfly wings are covered in a...
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Moscow
MBA courses are booming in Moscow as a shrinking job market fuels a drive for graduates to gain higher qualifications. Private western colleges and organisations such as the British Council, which...
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Bliss on the balance sheet
Gross happiness levels will replace GDP as a key social indicator, Andrew Oswald argues The politician's staple notion - try to maximise material progress - is now redundant. Britain is going to have...
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Readers' reactions
Rick Rylance, Secretary of the Council for College and University English Last week in The THES Diane Purkiss suggested we needed a British version of the Modern Language Association The Council for...
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The charity, Crisis
Once called Crisis at Christmas, Crisis changed its name ten years ago to stress that it was hard at work in every season. All too often the charity,dedicated to helping single homeless people who...
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On the move
Sandra Dawson, 52, professor of management studies and director of the Judge Institute of Management Studies at the University of Cambridge, has been appointed master of Sidney Sussex College. The...
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Glittering prizes
Aung San Suu Kyi, co-founder and general secretary of the National League for Democracy, has received the honorary degree of doctor of laws from the University of Bath. The university has also made...
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Venice in peril again
During 1998, the acqua alta lapped over St Mark's Square on 76 days and Venetians fear the disastrous 1996 flooding may become a recurring nightmare. But this month the ambitious Moses project to...
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia is to introduce the community college concept nationwide to accommodate students not accepted into local higher learning institutions. The ministry also plans to build another five...
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Sicily
Two academics at the University of Catania have been arrested on charges of being part of an international gang trafficking in Greek, Etruscan and Roman archeological treasures. Giacomo Manganaro,...
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Siberia
Russian scientists are planning to recreate an Ice Age steppe environment in a small wildlife preserve near the Arctic town of Chersky. Horses, bison, moose and reindeer are being introduced into the...
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Stockholm
Sigbrit Franke, 56-year-old professor of educational theory and rector of Umea University in Sweden, has been named university chancellor and head of Hogskoleverket (Association of Universities and...