Medical 'crisis': 74 chairs vacant
Medical schools face a crisis recruiting top researchers to clinical chairs. An unpublished survey reveals that at least 74 of the 401 established positions in the United Kingdom are vacant. A...
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Solar, so good, for UK fusion
The European effort to harness the power of the sun has been taken over by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. The transfer of ownership of the Joint European Torus at Culham in Oxfordshire...
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Drop-outs still get loan
Students who drop out during their first term at university will still receive the second instalment of their loans following delays in data collection by the Student Loans Company. The SLC will pay...
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Turk students face study ban
Turkish students face the prospect of political restrictions on studying abroad following concern that they are coming into contact with radical Islamic groups. Parliament is proposing introducing...
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Moi University
Four days after Moi University reopened from a month-long closure, students went on the rampage again. Property worth more than Sch5 million (Pounds 40,000) was destroyed. The students set fire to...
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True indicator is a job at the end
The opening paragraph of your front-page story states that "the myth that new universities are better than old at social inclusion was shattered today by the publication of the sector's first...
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Hold the web page
The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California has launched the hard-hitting Online Journalism Review, covering the state of reporting on the web through news stories...
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Mass observation
The European Southern Observatory has just released more than ten gigabytes of observational data, obtained with the first 8.2-m VLT Unit Telescope (ANTU) and the FORS1 and ISAAC astronomical...
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True indicator is a job at the end
Bahram Bekhradnia's figures (Soapbox, December 3) show a striking inverse linear relationship between an A-level points score and the likelihood that a university student will subsequently drop out....
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g spots of bother
Genetic determinism is the new religion, and Rosalind Arden ("g whiz! IQ is a clever concept", THES, December 3) seems determined to be one its apostles. Before people rush to "accept the facts",...
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True indicator is a job at the end
I was surprised the director of policy for the HEFCE should write that "it is clear that our universities have succeeded in maintaining standards" following a comparison with other countries. There...
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House problems
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals is to be evicted from its London pied-a-terre. The University of London, freeholder of the flat that comes with the post of CVCP chairman, has decided...
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Set your sites on Oxford
Fancy setting up your own university? A snappy website is a must and Ascension Island is the place to start. All web addresses registered there end .ac, easy to confuse with .ac.uk as used by British...
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For the money minded
Nobody who is any good lectures full time in information technology, computer studies, accountancy or law when they can make four times as much in commerce, Dudley South MP Ian Pearson, a former...
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In the news
As a second American mission in three months looks to have bitten the Mars dust, Colin Pillinger, leader of the planned European mission to Mars, must feel torn. The apparent failure of Mars Polar...