Treasure seized in Bassani battle
Unpublished manuscripts by the late Giorgio Bassani and an art collection allegedly worth Pounds 6 million are at the centre of a bitter legal dispute between the writer's children and an American...
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How to write a paper
Scientific papers need not be turgid. Geoff Watts gives a few tips on writing a page-turner that just might win you a reputation. Most scientific papers are less than exciting. Along with computer...
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Original work
(Photograph) - Silvio Ruggieri, the first Saatchi Scholar at Chelsea College of Art and Design, presented his show 'Origin and Destination 0.02: Pathological Form', last week. Photograph by JOEL CHANT
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Sheffield at centre of crisis in funding
Union leaders fear job losses nationally and are threatening strikes. Tony Tysome reports Low goals: on many measures, the educational performance of Sheffield's youngsters is below the national...
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Readers' reactions
Last month in The THES...John Stein advocated the introduction of special selection tests Nigel Probert Caerphilly Universities should offer subjects for extended essay (2,500-3,000 words) to final-...
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Abolish fees call amid high-level doubts
Alan Thomson reports from the Lib Dem's conference in Bournemouth Liberal Democrats have reaffirmed calls to abolish tuition fees, even though a senior party member said abolition would penalise the...
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Don's Diary
Monday To the Netherlands, with good friend and colleague Dr Donna, to speak at the "Global Conference on Language and Literacy" at the University of Utrecht. Travel in the university car - a 2-litre...
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Over there and over everything
(Photograph) - English plastered over a hoarding in east Berlin. Some academics think such linguistic colonisation betrays a lack of confidence in German
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Sting RAE
In the last few months of the year, publishers tend to put next year's date on new books. Academics mindful of the need for 2000 publications for the research assessment exercise might like to check...
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A double dose of digital drivel
Internet scholars are stuck in the past while the public plays with the future, argues David Gauntlett Before the mid-1990s, academics knew everything about the internet. No wonder: they ran it. It...
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Warwick opens door for grants
Labour peer and vice-chancellors' chief Diana Warwick admitted this week that the abolition of maintenance grants had damaged efforts to widen participation in higher education by the poor. She made...
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Scholarship students arrive from Malaysia
* Sixty Malaysians will arrive at British universities next month, mostly for postgraduate studies, under the Chevening programme. A further 16 will continue in their second or third year of study...
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Shefc celebrates funding boost
Scottish finance minister Jack McConnell has increased the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's budget from Pounds 609.4 million in 2000-01 to Pounds 697.6 million in 2003-04 - an increase in...
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V-c's widow wins damages from ICI
(Photograph) - The widow of Sir Gordon Beveridge (pictured), former vice-chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast, has won Pounds 295,000 damages following Sir Gordon's death from the incurable...
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AUT president loses battle with cancer
David Green, president of the Association of University Teachers, has died, aged 48, of cancer just 14 days into his presidency. Dr Green studied mathematics at Imperial College and completed his MSc...