Slipping up on our apples and pears
We must move away from false comparisons, while guaranteeing minimum standards, says Michael Scott Michelangelo once addressed a group of students about perception. He went to an entirely white wall...
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Made to measure
League tables are here to stay like it or not. Leslie Wagner kicks off this year's THES Trends with a call for more value-added appraisalof university performance Value-added is the buzz word in...
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Tables turned on critics
The authors of The Times league tables are fed up with insults and want more constructive criticism Speakers at a Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals conference felt The Times league tables...
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Push and pulling power
Elaine Carlton looks at what alternative university guides have to offer student wannabes It could be the price of beer, the number of good-looking women or men, or the best place for a buzzing night...
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Hotline for not-so-blind data
HESA is in the statistics business but that does not mean league tables, Brian Ramsden argues Long ago, one evening when I was the only person left in the office, I had the dubious pleasure of...
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Cloning a Lost Lover
You weren't there any more. I don't know why, but I know you were gone, just not there any more, and I was frozen with grief. (You know how it would be. I was eating lots of salad, running four miles...
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Cloning: the story so far ...
* An anonymous American is paying more than Pounds 3 million to clone his dog, Missy. Researchers at Texas A&M University have two years in which to achieve the feat of creating the world's first...
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Even our clones will tell their own tales
The scientist is ready, the lawyer is expectant, but it is the storyteller, says Martha Nussbaum, to whom we should now listen as we consider one of the greatest ethical issues of our time ... A...
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Shocking treatment
Forget the counselling, Giovanni B. Cassano (right) argues that the mentally ill need electric shock treatment. Domenico Pacitti reports The Italian health ministry has decided to sanction the use of...
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An evil man or a man for wicked times?
Was Hitler an author of evil or a character in a baleful plot not of his own making? Ian Kershaw has some answers As the year 2000 looms, there has been inevitable talk of who is the man or woman of...
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Agony Aunt
Q. - "I am to be personal tutor to more than 30 students this year and am having terrible trouble working out how to be available to all, especially new undergraduates and still have a life?" A....
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Copenhagen
Following a visit to Greenland, Danish minister of research Jan Trojborg has authorised an extra grant of DKK 20 million (Pounds 1.78 million) over the next four years for Greenlandic archaeological...
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Blunkett puts Pounds 38m behind skills boost
Harriet Swain reports from the Trades Union Congress in Blackpool The government is to devote Pounds 38 million to improving skills in the United Kingdom following the first report of a task force on...
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Slight dip in places claimed
* Figures released on Wednesday show that 311,906 people have found places at university or college so far with several weeks of clearing to go. The figure is fractionally below the 312,619 recorded...
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Labour wants to boost HE in Scotland by 2003
* In Scottish Labour's document A Lifetime of Opportunity, which offers policies that the Scottish Parliament can address, the party said it wants to provide opportunities for 750,000 students in...