Experts in a lava over big Jenny
An ominous volcano deep in the Caribbean is making threats from volcanoes in New Zealand and Italy this month pale into insignificance, a Southampton geologist said this week. Kick 'em Jenny, a...
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Flywheel puts extra energy into the future of urban driving
The efficiency of passenger cars could be improved dramatically by research at Newcastle University aimed at developing "hybrid" vehicles powered by a flywheel in addition to a conventional engine....
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Violence rocks South Africa
Student unrest has hit nearly a third of South Africa's 35 universities and technikons in the past two months in what many people believe has been a combination of student organisations flexing their...
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States of devolution and static friction
Anthony Cohen condemns the tidy-minded ethos of the Harris report and its especially baleful consequences for Scotland. The authors of the Harris report on postgraduate studies have quite missed the...
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How sweet victory left a bitter taste
Val Goulden is not famous or powerful but as a lecturer she won an industrial tribunal. Did this make her fair game for a tabloid investigation? Francis Beckett reports. Like journalist Polly Toynbee...
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It's fees or standards, says London chief
A clear choice between introducing top-up tuition fees and allowing standards to fall faces many of Britain's cash-starved universities, the vice chancellor of the University of London has claimed,...
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Medics flood wards and try patients
Calls for a new medical school to teach rising numbers of medical students were made by the British Medical Association this week. The association's annual meeting voted for a new school after it...
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New lease of life
Nice to see London School of Economics Ireland expert Brendan O'Leary getting due recognition in another newspaper's "media don" series, but the researchers missed the most splendidly odd fact about...
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Ecology centre move
Edinburgh University's beleaguered Centre for Human Ecology is to re-establish itself on an organic farm in Fife following its effective closure by the university at the end of this session. A one-...
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Oz centre staff funds dry up
Britain's largest centre for Australian studies cannot afford teaching staff for next year's courses because of a funding crisis. The Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies in London, requires...
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Essay winner
Barbara Spender is the first winner of the Menerva Trust/THES competition for the best essay on women in society, with an autobiographical perspective on women writers. She is a mature PhD student at...
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LGU jobs axe claims axeman
Nigel Brown, formerly director of finance at the Higher Education Funding Council for England and one of the key creators of the present funding system, has become the highest-ranked victim so far of...
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Facing up to glass bones
Glass could be used to rebuild shattered face and neck bone, according to University of Sheffield researchers. They claim the "bone friendly" material is much better than metal or plastic used in...
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Post delay
We apologise to readers whose subscription copies of The THES were delayed by the postal strike last week: as we went to press, more disruption was planned for June and 28 which will cause a similar...
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Japanese join jobless
Unemployment is fast becoming a fact of life for students graduating from Japanese universities. For the fourth year running tens of thousands graduated without jobs as the academic year ended this...