Geordie desk map surveys the markets
A geographical information system and mapping application developed with the help of Newcastle University's surveying department has been brought to market by a spinoff company. The Deskmapper...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a succinct scientist: "However, if we do discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists....
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Speaking Volumes: British Capitalism, Workers and the Profits Squeeze
Martin Holmes on Andre Glyn and Bob Sutcliffe's British Capitalism, Workers and the Profits Squeeze . The early 1970s was an intellectually exhilarating time to be an undergraduate student of...
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Hong Kong tie in trouble
The University of Abertay Dundee is claiming more than Pounds 130,000 from a Hong Kong company which it says misled it over a distance-learning contract. In a Hong Kong Supreme Court writ, the...
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In profile
This is the first issue of The THES to be available to users with access to FT Profile, the leading online text retrieval system. FT Profile is available in most academic libraries and to many users...
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Student knifing fuels race fears
Police were this week playing down reports that the fatal stabbing of a London student was racially motivated, for fear of heightening factional tension on campus. A Nigerian student, Ayotunde...
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People's Free University of Pollok set up by the M77 protesters
(Photograph) - Grove of academe: Alastair McIntosh (centre), teaching director of Edinburgh University's centre for human ecology, chats to new students after giving an inaugural lecture at the...
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Baring blow to charity
Grant-giving charities suffered a double blow this week with the collapse of the fortunes of the Baring Foundation and news of an instant National Lottery that will directly compete with charity...
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Cheerful assassin defies analysis
When Frederick Crews attacked Freud in an article 14 months ago, he outraged many psychoanalysts. It was, he argues here, a fury from a profession aware of its accelerating collapse In its issue of...
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Magic markers
Marking by computer is proving a boon to academic staff. John Davies reports Essential equipment if you are studying subjects such as chemistry or biochemical sciences at Kingston University: a 2B...
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Madam speaker
Lucy Hodges talks to a loud Italian-American lesbian who knows how to handle herself in a fight, professor of humanities at the University of the Arts, Camille Paglia. Camille Paglia will not talk to...
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Imagine a world without bra warmers
He tucks into wild pigeon, he dictates notes to his secretary by clinging to a wall and speaking through a window instead of simply walking round to her office, he lies in a bath like Archimedes in...
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Rise of Anglo-Chinese
In this part of the world, it is commonplace to argue that English is important to the Chinese because of its usefulness in trade and finance. Anyone who is bilingual in Chinese and English can...
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The best kept low pay secret around
Not for the first time, I have been struck by how much more successful other groups of public employees are than university staff at drawing attention to their ungenerous treatment and at winning...
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Don's Diary
SATURDAY. The weekend before the start of the spring term. Drive to Warwick for a conference on Ben Jonson. Intellectually stimulating, it has been organised by a graduate student who has invited...