Perilous waters
Next week the leaders of Britain's universities will meet to decide on their collective policy for the coming year. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals will be presented by its officers...
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Coup for 'coffee jar' monitor
British scientists hope to use data from the eruption of a volcano in Iceland last week to predict volcanic hyperactivity months before an eruption. For the team from the University of Durham, the...
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Cambodian tragedy laid on a misunderstood Marx
In his book review of Western Responses to Human Rights Abuses in Cambodia, Richard Gough wonders "how many lives worldwide might have been saved had Karl Marx kept his political and economic...
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Fair's fair please
(Photograph) - Fair's fair please: Unison members take their minimum wage campaign to the Department for Education and Employment. The union, with 50,000 members, the biggest in higher education, has...
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AUT fears bite in job watchdog
Lecturers' leaders have cast serious doubt on two projects designed to improve staff development and job evaluation in universities and colleges. The Association of University Teachers and the...
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Predators at the negotiating table
I was as heartened by the article in support of Roger Scruton by another distinguished philosopher, David Wiggins (THES, October 4), as I was dismayed by the condemnation from the animal rights lobby...
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Classics get the cold shoulder
Academics in the United States are more interested in preparing their students for careers than in teaching them the classic works of Western civilisation. Those are among the findings of the third...
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Brains headache
Alumnus to be proud of No: 70 follows Sir Keith Joseph, William Waldegrave, Robert Jackson and many others in offering convincing evidence of the vulnerability of extreme intellectual talents. Far...
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Telling tale of infidelity among heterosexuals
I was dismayed at the report of my conference paper about how people account for infidelity, their own and their partner's (THES, September ). In particular, I did not say, nor do I agree, that women...
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Students angle for blue-chip jobs
A growing number of Japanese undergraduates are taking an extra year to complete their degree courses in the hope of being headhunted for top jobs. Around 15 per cent of them now extend their study...
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Deja VU
Well-known names in educationtechnology took part in an online conference on the "virtual university", organised by Anne Forster and Clark Quinn of the University of New South Wales to coincide with...
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Nobel wins buck Britain
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry came home this week with Sir Harold Kroto of Sussex University winning the award for the discovery of a remarkable form of carbon whose structure matches the pattern of...
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New! Improved formula!
Feminist philosopher of science Sandra Harding braves the din of a London launderette to explain to Gail Vines why she thinks modern science would be much improved by incorporating other cultural...
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National holiday celebrates teachers
Uzbekistan president Islam Karimov has proclaimed a new national holiday to be celebrated on October 1. The decree creating "Teachers and Instructors Day" evidently came too late for this year. The...