Cinderella plays ball
Higher education in Scotland would be better delivered through local colleges, leaving universities a greater national role in research and development, according to radical proposals from six major...
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Different strokes
What makes Aborigine children draw people as semi-circles when western children draw stick figures? ask Maureen Cox and Rosemary Hill By the age of about two or two-and-a-half, most children have...
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Web team builds links
An award-winning university research team has linked with a hypermedia company to develop its prototype of an industrial strength system to open up the closed domain of the World Wide Web. The...
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Faster clearing predicted
Record results expected in this year's A levels could mean a speedy end to clearing. If, as predicted, more students make their hoped-for grades next week, fewer will be fighting for left-over...
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Summer time, and the living is easy?
The long vacation seems to get shorter by the year for the five academics John Davies asked for their summer plans, what with the RAE, medieval farming and swimming with young Bengali men. Do you...
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Society plea to tether Ropas
The Royal Society this week urged the Government to halt further expansion of a multimillion pound research initiative until the quality of the work already funded is established. Launched in 1994/95...
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Don't belittle teaching duties
Laurie Taylor (THES, July 26) quotes Graham Zellick, vice chancellor, University of London: "The highest quality in research is intrinsically more important than the highest quality in teaching."...
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Doctorates in need of new direction
A redefinition of PhDs is urgently needed to end confusion among postgraduates and avoid an international downgrading of British research degrees, according to the National Postgraduate Committee....
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Top-up fees:a breach of contract?
Universities are seeking legal advice about the implications of a rapid implementation of top-up fees. The issue is officially on hold until after the next Budget, following which the Committee of...
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Duty and the beasts
Thanks to BSE fears over food have rarely been greater. But they have not been matched by an outcry over the fate of the cattle destroyed. Are concerns about the welfare of animals and the philosophy...
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Not making Llosa sense
Why was Vargas Llosa's use of the expression "complete buggles" for the influence of Derrida and Lacan a linguistic error (THES, July 26)? Given Vargas Llosa's command of English, and his literary...
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Software to combat disasters
University scientists have designed a unique computer software package to help avert such tragedies as the Heysel Stadium disaster, the recent bomb explosion in Atlanta, or even the Estonia sinking....
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Raising the roof on the mists of time
A Bronze Age timber house on stilts is being reconstructed for the first time in nearly 2,000 years, in a loch. Nicholas Dixon, research fellow in archaeology at Edinburgh University, and his team...
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English hold own in world maths league
English university entrants maintained their high achievements in maths and science relative to other countries over 20 years, according to an international round-up of educational achievement....