Long and short of job contracts
Fixed-term contracts demoralise staff. A far better way to cope with an uncertain financial future is to have a high-quality satisfied workforce that is loyal to you. Only then are you able to...
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Letters in brief
Continuing professional development will indeed be supported by the University for Industry, along with the continuing learning needs of all adults ("Flexible accounts to pay for lifelong study",...
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Overseas adventures
Roger Brown gives ample proof that hindsight is a wonderful thing ("Scrutinise those overseas links", THES, January 1). His own standpoint is impregnable, too, since he was not at the helm of...
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Science - the only frontier
Former astronaut George 'Pinky' Nelson charts a cure forscience illiteracy in the US and beyond. While scientific knowledge is growing at a breathtaking pace, science literacy is not. In fact, there...
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Openness saves lives
On the eve of the Freedom of Information Bill, Iain McLean points out abuses of secrecy. When I was a lad writing a thesis on Red Clydeside, I remember writing to the minister responsible asking to...
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A first shot of hope
The breakthrough in the race to find an Aids vaccine could be at hand. David Baltimore, who oversees US efforts, will discuss provocative new findings in California this weekend. Tim Cornwell reports...
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Scientists fear NIH budget will hit research
After half a decade of dwindling budgets the US research community celebrated a giant jump in funding last year. Congress and the White House agreed 15 per cent more for the National Institutes of...
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A warm weather warning
Sherwood Rowland has seen his work on the dangers of aerosol sprays result in a worldwide ban. But, he tells Ayala Ochert, he fears it will take an environmental crisis before governments take action...
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Age-old battle continues with true believers
As researchers continue to seek traces of the biblical flood, Tim Cornwell reports on the stand-off between science and religion. In the early 19th century, the days before Charles Darwin and his...
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Kuala Lumpur
Education minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has announced that his ministry and the University Malaysia Sabah are discussing setting up a new private university in Kota Kinabalu, in the east of the...
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Vienna
Austria is to encourage private universities to compete with public institutions in higher education. Several US universities have already indicated an interest in offering courses in Austria that...
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Sources for research funding
Each fortnight this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience 1999 Investigator-...
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Counsellors require more guidance
Guidance and counselling services in universities can be "patchy or non-existent", according to a report by the Careers Research and Advisory Centre. Guidance services will become a higher priority...
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Pisa
Italy's doctoral students have asked president Oscar Luigi Scalfaro to halt controversial plans for the mass promotion of 3,500 graduate technicians to tenured researchers through special...
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Gabon
Hundreds of students clashed with armed police on the streets of Libreville, capital of Gabon, over the failure to build more student hostels and an extra cafeteria. Some students were wounded trying...