The plot thickens
History is fiction, argues Alun Munslow, but that does not mean it cannot tell truths What do historians do? When I was an undergraduate in the 1960s I read good-practice primers, among them E. H....
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Letter
Your editorial "Dolly is just cloning around" (THES, February 28) states "the public has a right to expect its elected governments to consider when, why and how technologies should be controlled, and...
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The euro trasher
Would-be leader of the Conservative party and chief Euro sceptic John Redwood savages the singlecurrency enthusiasts' case and tells Martin Ince why proper debate is needed When politicians call for...
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Let there be Darwin
Popular cosmologists and evolutionists are fond of poking fun at the Bible as unscientific. Russell Stannard, however, finds its insights rather less facile than their theological pretensions...
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The tanks that think
Simon Midgley reports on Demos in the latest in our series on intelligence units Demos, an independent think tank, was set up in 1993 to help reinvigorate public policy and political thinking. Geoff...
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A voyager on well versed seas
Was Keats a political poet? Biographer Andrew Motion, who recently retraced Keats's 1820 voyage to Naples, certainly thinks so \ If you think poets and writers keep irregular hours and lead feckless...
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Chain gangs
Lock up your gold chains. US-style mayors may be about to hit our cities Tony Blair has hit the headlines by arguing for powerful, directly elected mayors, along the American model, to become part of...
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Black injustice
YOUNG black offenders have suffered tougher treatment from police and judges than their white equivalents, according to research. A five-year study found they were both more likely to be acquitted in...
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Pusher bounty pays for drug research
DRUG dealers are to fund research at Teesside University, albeit indirectly and involuntarily. Money from the Cleveland police fund based on seized dealers' assets has been used to endow a prize for...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/6 reveal that: 11.4 per cent of the student population came from overseas to study in the United Kingdom compared with 10.4 per cent in 1994...
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Student solidarity
(Photograph) - Student solidarity: Thames Valley University has suspended planned disciplinary action against 32 lecturers in dispute over workloads. About 500 students lobbied the university in...
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Moral guru for Dearing
Sir Ron Dearing has enlisted a moral philosopher to help his committee of inquiry into higher education provide ethical guidelines for universities, he revealed this week. Briefing the Council for...
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Pounds 8.6m question mark over NVQs
"Incorrect and uncertain" payments amounting to Pounds 8.6 million were paid by the Department for Education and Employment to training providers in 1995/96, the Public Accounts Committee says in a...
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Bug alert
(Photograph) - Bug alert: Gordon Ramel of the Exeter University Amateur Entomological Society shows off a Malaysian Junal Nymph which will take part in science week from today until March 21. More...
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V-cs want law on title use
SELECT higher education institutions should be able to call themselves university colleges, according to a working party set up by the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals. But it wants...