First Double Star satellite successfully launched
Paris, December 29, 2003 This evening, at 20:06 CET, the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA) successfully launched TC-1, the first of two scientific satellites known as Double Star. The...
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Major Mars Express scheduled orbit change achieved
Paris, 30 December 2003 This morning, at 09:00 CET, the first European mission to Mars registered another operational success. The Mars Express flight control team at ESOC prepared and executed...
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Record-breaking ancient galaxy clusters
Paris, 02 Jan 2004 A tale of two record-breaking clusters The cluster RDCS1252.9-29 The embryonic cluster TNJ1338-1942 The cluster RDCS1252.9-29 Studies of two distant galaxy clusters using a...
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Revealing figures behind the styles
Tutors who use some popular learning models could be wasting their time. The evidence, says Frank Coffield, suggests that all are not equal New staff are routinely asked to identify their predominant...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage Name : Catriona Scott Age : 40 Job : Director of taught programmes at Dartington College of Arts, Totnes, Devon....
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Reach out and cuddle up to another discipline
Why stay faithful to one subject when you can hop into bed with another? Nick Saunders advocates a bit of collaboration Collaboration is a strange word, and means different things to different...
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Jobwatch: Change your convictions
If your job is beginning to feel like a long-term sentence in purgatory, you could do worse than to soothe your pain by transporting yourself south for a stretch in the sun. Chris Johnston reports...
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Who got that job?
Jill Nimmo, 43 Pensions Manager, Leeds University Administrative 3/4 (cica £30,000 p.a.) Job advertised in The THES , March 21 2003 The departure of vice-chancellor Alan Wilson is just one of many...
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Peerage for Triesman
David Triesman, general secretary of the Labour Party and former head of the Association of University Teachers, has been appointed to the House of Lords. His appointment comes before as many as 30...
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Oxford state offers drop
Oxford University awarded 51.7 per cent of places to applicants from state schools this year, compared with 54.3 per cent last year. Jane Minto, director of the Oxford Colleges Admissions Office,...
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Libyan partnership
The British Council has signed a cultural agreement with Libya. The placement service agreement is expected to bring a "huge increase" in the number of Libyans studying at UK universities and...
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Kingston to move to des res location
Expansion plans at two institutions contrast with gloom at another Kingston University is planning to move into a prestigious local landmark building as part of a reshaping and expansion initiative....
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£300m plan launched
Leicester University has unveiled a £300 million, 30-year expansion plan and has appointed a businessman to lead its fundraising. Nicholas Corah, whose clothing manufacturing company once employed...
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Redundancy drive aims to free up cash at Luton
Luton University is encouraging high-paid senior academics to volunteer for redundancy as it attempts to free cash for restructuring. It is thought that as many as 50 older staff holding senior...
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New year honours
Controversy... This year's new year honours list has been dogged by more controversy than ever, with mounting pressure on the government to open up the secretive process under which worthy recipients...