Out to Graz
Controversy over participation in the European Association for American Studies conference, which was held in Graz, Austria, in early April, led to a pre-conference meeting of representatives from...
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The pension millionaire game
Pension chiefs should learn tobe more open and ask the audience, says Andrew Oswald Chris Tarrant: Welcome to the only show where you, the regular person, can win riches. I believe you are Ulysses....
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Ken Richardson argued that aptitude tests would not get more working-class children into university. Anyone interested in the way that scholastic aptitude tests work should...
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Explaining the profits
Your money is in safe hands, says university pension scheme chief executive David Chynoweth. The pensions industry is under close scrutiny. And rightly so. The funds involved are huge and those...
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Is this the final frontier?
A mysterious, deep red point of light that might turn out to be by far the most distant object ever seen has astronomers baffled. The object, dubbed HDFN-JD1 by its discoverers, has been found in a...
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Stockholm
The number of students at Sweden's universities and university colleges will be increased by 10,500 in both 2001 and 2002, the government has announced. An extra Skr5 billion (Pounds 363 million)...
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Don's Diary
Monday Discuss cover design of new monograph series to be launched at our annual conference in July. Cannot decide if Picasso-esque logo is cleverly ironic postmodern comment slyly capturing the...
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Read my lips
(Photograph) - Read my lips: Lucy Preston, an MA student in sculpture at Winchester School of Art, designed 156 different plastercast mouths for a piece of work about traditional story-telling....
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Bogota
A survey commissioned by Colombia's Luis Amigo University Foundation has revealed that students at Bogota's 18 university institutes are the city's highest consumers of alcohol and drugs.
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Sarawak
Malaysian assistant minister for finance Encik Michael Manyin Jawong has called for greater efforts to produce more graduates among Sarawak's indigenous Bidayuh people. The 166,700 Bidayuh make up 8...
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Will life improve for nurse trainees?
Parties with an interest in the government's review of funding for nursing tell Claire Sanders what they hope will change NEIL TURNER The government review of funding for nursing, midwifery and other...
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The University of life
(Photograph) - The University of life: The BBC tested the old adage that many scientists cannot even tie their own shoelaces when it challenged five experts to solve taxing problems on a remote...
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Councils compile techno wish list
Lab-on-a-chip sensors, next-generation computing "grids", giant telescopes and autonomous robot submarines are among the technologies that will be needed to drive science forward in coming decades....
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Union loses epic contract battle
Lecturers have lost their epic battle to restore the working conditions they enjoyed when colleges were run by local authorities. The London employment tribunal has dismissed claims by breakaway...
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Bradford issues internet plagiarism warning
Students at Bradford University have been warned not to sell their assignments to an internet organisation because doing so will breach academic regulations and copyright laws, writes Jennifer Currie...