Laurie Taylor column
"The soundbite mentality... renders any intellectualisation around an issue an impossibility" - Brenda Gourley, vice-chancellor of The Open University , THES, October 11 . Professor Lapping, sorry to...
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Leader: Ministers could find full-cost fees too hot to handle
Taken on the evidence of one surprising week, the Brave New World of higher education is like a London bus. You wait for ages for one big initiative to appear and then two come along at once....
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Finding funds to care for the kids and the worms
Institutionalised sexism discourages many women from a career in science. What's being done about it? asks Helen Hague. Patricia Murray's PhD, awarded last year, was at the cutting edge of...
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'We've gone beyond bottom pinching... but this is worse'
Institutionalised sexism discourages many women from a career in science. What's being done about it? asks Helen Hague. Baroness Greenfield broke the pre-publication purdah surrounding her keenly...
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Ego, rivalry, venality... academia finds fame
Psychotic determination and guilt have lifted two dons to literary success. Olga Wojtas met them. Richard Morgan has been variously reported as winning $1 million or £1 million from Hollywood for the...
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Degree that offers the lot
It's fashionable, accessible, flexible, challenging, rigorous, diverse and vocationalI No wonder so many people are signing up for art history. Shearer West reports. When Prince William enrolled at...
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What lurks in the shadows?
If the US topples Saddam Hussein, will it then foster a democratic society in Iraq or just replace an intractable tyrant with one more amenable to its interests? asks Charles Tripp What will happen...
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New kind of science, old kind of sceptics?
Stephen Wolfram had such confidence in his 'new intellectual structure' that he decided to sidestep peer review and publish A New Kind of Science himself. But while the book has proved a hit with the...
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'Support the people in freeing themselves'
Although they consider Saddam Hussein a tyrant, many Iraqi exiles view a US invasion of their homeland with ambivalence. Three academics share their reservations with Chris Bunting Mohammed Hassan...
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Did Monty's strategic flair win El Alamein or was it a sick Rommel and five times more tanks
On the 60th anniversary of El Alamein, Adrian Mourby finds historical opinion divided on General Montgomery's part in the crucial Allied victory I'm worried that he is after my job," Churchill...
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Trapped by terror, hostage to history
In the wake of the Bali bombs, C. W. Watson urges the international community to pause and consider Indonesia's past before jumping to conclusions. The murder of more than 180 innocent people dancing...
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Commission clears plan for disposal of radioactive waste from Hunterston A power station
Brussels, 16 October 2002 Commission opinion of 10 October 2002 concerning the plan for the disposal of radioactive waste arising from the dismantling of the Hunterston A power station located in the...
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Further evidence of a giant black hole in our galaxy discovered by European astronomers
Brussels, 16 Oct 2002 An international team of astronomers, including groups from Germany and France, have observed an otherwise normal star orbiting what they believe to be a supermassive black hole...
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Commission project to tackle 'killer bacteria'
Brussels, 16 Oct 2002 An EU project involving 11 European laboratories is to study Group A streptococci (GAS) infections, also known as 'killer bacteria' due to the speed at which they can develop....
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MoU on COST research project "Characterisation of paper surfaces for improved printing paper grades" (link)
Brussels, 16 Oct 2002 Full text of Document 265/02 MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING Subject: Memorandum of Understanding for the implementation of a European Concerted Research Action designated as COST...