The coldest place on earth
Dear diary, it's -30 oC it's been dark for a month and it's snowing againI Scientist Alex Gaffikin (below) describes life on a research station somewhere in the Antarctic. March 7 1999 There is no...
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Fertile with ideas for the infertile
Men can get pregnant, but can they give birth? Fertility studies pioneer Robert Winston talks to Alison Goddard about new ways to make babies. In the future men will give birth to children. Or so...
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He who reigns in Spain
Huw Richards talks to Franco biographer Paul Preston (above), the British historian who has become a household name in Spain. It would be an exaggeration to call Paul Preston a prophet without honour...
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Emotional intelligence: Will EQ tests replace IQ tests?
The supporter The research team at Henley Management College knew it would not be easy to pin down the apparently nebulous concept of emotional intelligence. Daniel Goleman's work was a good starting...
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Clever is as clever does
The concept of emotional intelligence is reshaping business school research programmes. Tony Tysome asks does it exist and can it be measured? Last month, 18-year-olds Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold...
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The reverser of fortunes
It's said that only the rich and guilty hire him, but it is the refuseniks and poor immigrants that lawyer Alan Dershowitz remembers. Now he's addressing another subject close to his heart - the...
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Cambridge faces fine for missing radioactive stock
Cambridge University is being prosecuted for the loss of a radioactive package. It could face an unlimited fine if found guilty. The Health and Safety Executive and the Environment Agency confirmed...
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Fees for foreigners spiral
Student leaders have warned that some universities are in danger of pricing themselves out of the overseas higher education market, as new figures reveal a yawning gap in the cost of tuition. The...
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Admin system overshoots budget by millions
A computerised administration and financial management system for Denmark's higher educational sector is so overdue that few institutions want it - but three universities need the system because...
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French course puts accent on e-business partnerships
A business school in France's alpine city of Grenoble has received hundreds of enquiries about a masters course in electronic business that begins in the 1999-2000 academic year. The one-year course...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES ... George Walden suggested that tuition fees should rise above Pounds 1,000 so academics can be paid more Max Roberts Department of psychology University of Essex Students...
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Global group seeks seven members
The 16 large research-intensive universities that form Universitas 21 are planning to expand membership. At its annual meeting in Montreal, U21 organisers said they would like to add seven members,...
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U21 pools brains to take on markets
The 16 members of Universitas 21 have decided to exploit their collective intellectual property assets on the world market by incorporating their association. The two-year-old global network of...
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Thai jobless out softselling politics
The Thai government is hiring 20,000 jobless graduates and diploma holders to teach communities about a new national constitution designed to combat political corruption. The 687 million baht (Pounds...
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Individualism becomes the first casualty of war
Torn between his ethnic and academic identities, Dejan Djokic finds the latter, the identity of an individual, must prevail Academics, like everyone else, are affected by wars. The wars in the former...