Stack 'em high, pitch 'em low
Darrel Ince argues that the brash computer publishing infecting our bookshops reflects a dangerous dumbing-down in computing A visit to Oxford has, until recently, been a pleasant experience: a walk...
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Madrid
Mariano Rajoy, Spain's new education minister, has promised to give a new status to the country's 22,000 temporary lecturers but has not revealed the mechanism. Rectors proposed that the academics on...
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Don's Diary
Friday Research day. Spend morning straddling the chasm between acoustic phonetics and language acquisition listening to two-year-old Geordies discussing the merits or otherwise of the Teletubby...
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On the move
Jenny Hobbs, director of the University of Durham's international office, will be acting principal of St Mary's College, Durham from April 1. She replaces Joan Kenworthy. Denys Turner, head of the...
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In the news
Question. Who said: "The past is much more than beefeaters, the Mary Queen of Scots experience and brown signs on the motorway. It is also the achievements of poets, painters, playwrights, musicians...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES Susan Greenfield asked what is wrong with the way we do science in Britain? Bill Thompson PhD student Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. I am a fully qualified architect with an...
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Glittering prizes
John Lawton, director of the Centre for Population Biology at Imperial College, has been awarded the Zoological Society of London's Frink Medal for British zoologists for 1998, for his contributions...
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The THES Diary
I'll sit this one out Who will be the next chairman of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals? Strathclyde's Sir John Arbuthnott was originally proposed by Southampton's Howard Newby,...
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Bridge over troubled water
Kate Hughes looks at the common aspirations that unite Cyprus despite its geographical and political divide If history had been kinder to Cyprus, the establishment of a university in Nicosia in the...
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Vienna
The Austrian government has promised the University of Vienna money for more research on the causes and prevention of avalanches in the Alps. This follows the avalanche disaster in the Tyrolean...
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Moscow
Inhabitants of an exclusive dacha complex, built 50 years ago for members of the scientific elite outside Moscow, are up in arms over developers' plans to fell a 72-hectare portion of the Zhukovka...
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Padua
A technician at the University of Padua shot one person dead and seriously wounded two others during a disciplinary meeting in the engineering faculty. A union representative was killed outright, the...
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Eye witness
Seventeen years ago global diplomacy failed to stop a conflict over 12,000 sq km of bleak, sparsely populated islands 480 km off South America. Efforts to resolve Anglo-Argentine differences over the...
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Loose ends in bonding sessions with business
The competitive commercial ethos is at odds with traditional collegial co-working, argues Stephen Court The government wants universities to play a much bigger role in creating a strong and...
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Drop-out rates suggest reform not disaster
Drop-out rates for first degree students in England are apparently rising.Before this induces panic there are some important points to make. First, though we now have participation rates comparable...