Treasure hunters discover net
Selling off rare books and works of art has always been a tempting option for universities short of cash. In the 17th century Oxford's Bodleian library sold off many supposed duplicates including the...
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Cutting edge
Stephen Salter. Professor of mechanical engineering, University of Edinburgh The elite design engineer of the future will need to combine theoretical studies with hands-on experience in the workshop...
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DTI looks at role of public research
The exploitation of research from public sector research establishments is to come under scrutiny from the Department of Trade and Industry and the Treasury. John Baker, chairman of the...
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Davids join to face Goliath
Lecturers have set up a support group for academics caught in discrimination and victimisation disputes at Leicester University, which faces at least five industrial tribunal cases. They say that...
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Higher compensation likely for whistleblowers
ssacked for raising concerns in good faith about malpractice and fraud at work will qualify for unlimited cash compensation, ministers are expected to announce. Under employment rights legislation...
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Sell atoms, hire bits
Europe is close to adopting technology that lets academics rent out their knowledge to the world. Mike Holderness reports The framework for a globally distributed virtual university is much nearer...
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God still in history's top ten
Social history is more popular than political history, with economic history coming a distant third. Ecclesiastical and religious history are pursued by more historians than gender-based approaches...
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Wendy McMurdo, a lecturer in Dundee University
(Photograph) - Wendy McMurdo, a lecturer in Dundee University's school of fine art, has won an award from the Leverhulme Trust for a two year project which combines traditional photographic...
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No university can shirk from confronting Aids
South Africa's Aids epidemic must be confronted with surgical rather than kid gloves, argues Brenda Gourley Few vice-chancellors will have given a condom, surgical gloves, and an Aids awareness badge...
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What we need: hard facts and a foods watchdog
After a week of claims and accusations about the evils of genetically modified food, what have we learnt about its safety, and about dealing with the growing rate at which new foods are promising to...
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A hard-nosed publisher writes...
Many thanks for your hilarious piece by Valentine Cunningham describing author/publisher relationships ("Mammon's imprint", THES, February 12). I am delighted to see The THES is filling the gap - so...
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Call estates' bluff
Surely it is about time somebody called the literary estates' bluff ("Poetic licence denied", THES, February 12)? Provided that what is quoted is less than a "substantial part" of each individual...
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Polished off
(Photograph) - Emlyn Budds, an applied art and design student at Loughborough University, puts the finishing touches on his new sculpture, Truth, Labour and Knowledge. Photograph: Steve Hill
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Unfair criticism
I was stunned and deeply disappointed that the Association of Colleges should criticise the role of the National Union of Students in the representation of FE students and their unions ("Colleges...
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It's a wonderful life
Unlike those in your article ("A few that got away", THES, February 5), I travelled in the other direction, returning to higher education as a lecturer in 1993 after 15 years in industry. Except for...