Dean of death
A university dean who has never visited a murder scene and has eyesight so poor he cannot even read a signed confession is now the best-known homicide expert in the US. Tim Cornwell reports....
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Catch in tax dodge
The suggestion in your report ("Tax dodgers spared axe", THES, September ) that the branch of lecturers' union Natfhe at the University of West England was involved in negotiating preferential "no...
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A storm of emotion
"His previous books have covered such issues as sulking, guilt and anger," explains a Goldsmiths College press release about professor of counselling Windy Dryden. He should have plenty of material...
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Stone cold sobering
Ars Longa, Vita Brevis is undoubtedly a fine motto for a medical school, being both Hippocratic in origin and a reflection of the time doctors spend in training. But one has to question setting it in...
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Models for brave new world
The Disability Discrimination Act aims to encourage institutions to provide a better service for students with disabilities. By the end of the next academic year, every department at the College of...
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Homeless link to dads
A troubled upbringing is common among young, homeless drug users in Manchester, according to a new report, writes Kam Patel. Published by researchers at Manchester Metropolitan University last week,...
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China clamps down on poor doctorates
China is getting tough with universities that fail to meet established criteria for awarding doctorates and is to standardise the appraisal system for degrees later this year. There are 2,500...
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Budding engineers go to market
Richard Barry's article is an interesting proposal but worthy of further testing. There are no academic absolutes in the criteria employed to determine admissions to any degree course. The A-level...
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The ethical economist
Andrew Robinson and Michael Prest profile Amartya Sen, the economist whose concern for justice stands out in a profession often obsessed with efficiency. With nearly 20 books, innumerable public...
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Catch in tax dodge
The University of West England's tax-free pay (TFP) scheme is no more a tax "dodge" than is deducting professional body subscriptions as an allowable expense in a tax return. It is a straightforward...
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Safe as houses
Rooms at Dundee University's new Pounds 3.5 million halls of residence are fitted with safes operated by student bank or credit cards using a "swipe" system.
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Oiling green palms
A Pounds 7 million proposal to build a marine environmental research centre in Wales has received approval from the Millennium Commission. The centre will be located in Pembrokeshire, near to the...
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A full platter
And a low-calorie welcome to the invited speaker at next week's Conservative party conference fringe meeting on "Obesity: A Plague for the 21st Century - Fat or Fiction", Professor Michael Lean of...
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Loans row hits poll
Already stumbling badly, Republican candidate Bob Dole's presidential campaign is now on the defensive over the United States' student loan programme. Republican attacks on popular "direct" loans...
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Holy grain
(Photograph) - Sculptor John Houlston has donated a representation of the solar system carved from a 500-year-old oak to the chapel at King's College London. The new one-tonne lectern, called The...