A law unto themselves?
Professor Jo Shaw, department of law, University of Leeds "Over the years legal academia has become increasingly feminised. When I first joined the Society of Public Teachers of Law in the mid-1980s...
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A law unto themselves?
Professor Katherine O'Donovan, faculty of law, Queen Mary & Westfield College, London "A breakthrough for me came when a group of women established an interdisciplinary course on 'women in...
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The dark side of the gloom
When depression cast its shadow over champion of science Lewis Wolpert he used his skills to promote greater understanding of the illness. Alison Goddard reports There is a difficult moment in my...
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Law school line-up for hall of fame (and shame)
A law unto themselves? UK university law schools with the highest and lowestrepresentation of women academics as of October 1, 1997* University Men Women Total % Women Oxford Brookes 5 9 14 64.3...
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Do you think science is dangerous?
The dark side of the gloom Do you think science is dangerous? Email us on: letters@thes.co.uk
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A law unto themselves?
Why are only 14 per cent of law professors women? asks Clare McGlynn I first learned that the law is what men say it is, and that lawyers are men, when I was five. Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures...
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Prizes, poverty and pasta: a week in the life of a winner
Best known for his work on the causes of famine, Amartya Sen, master of Trinity College, Cambridge, has won the 1998 Nobel prize for economics. He tells Alison Goddard about his first week as Nobel...
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US threat to Euro defence firms
Europe's defence industries are heading for their second big post-cold war shakeout in the face of stiffening competition from firms in the United States, according to a report for Brussels by a...
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China in satellite deal with Surrey
The University of Surrey has established a company with Tsinghua University in Beijing to build small satellites for the Chinese market. The Chinese require about 100 small satellites over the next...
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Group's call for a 'third way' towards PhDs based on the European experience
A third way of getting a PhD should be introduced, according to the United Kingdom Council for Graduate Education. At present, British students submit a dissertation for a traditional PhD while...
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Industry told to get more adventurous
A study of venture capital in the United States over three decades estimates it now accounts for 20 per cent of total innovative effort and the impact of every venture dollar on patenting is five...
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DTI puts farming research to test
Biologists fear that agricultural research is under further threat. The Department of Trade and Industry has asked the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council to examine whether its...
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Power of the keys
(Photograph) - Tom Wickens, who is autistic, performed part of a Beethoven work and one of his own compositions at a conference at the University of Hertfordshire on educating children with autism...
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Why I ... think couples should have children
The current trend is to choose not to have children. All over the West birth rates are falling. And I am asking why. I have two different worries about this fall in population. My first anxiety is...
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Hedge bets and get rich safely
Universities should not lose their nerve after the near collapse of LCTM, says Andrew Murison There has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth recently about the performance of a particular kind of...