Meaningful shifts
Jean Aitchison (THES, March 22) is right to reject the pedantic, xenophobic and snobbish prejudice of many of her correspondents. But she quotes with evident approval a sneering attempt to stereotype...
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Labour looks likely winner
It is risky to forecast the result of the general election with the contest perhaps more than one year away. Unlike 1992, the economy will probably not be in recession and the recent past should warn...
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Squaring the circle
The latest theories on how Stonehenge was built were aired at a Royal Society conference this week. John Davies reports. This issue of The THES went to press just before the astronomical milestone of...
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Age of genetic utopia
In perhaps the most jubilant message of national science week geneticist Steve Jones has announced that we are living in a utopia - of a genetic kind. "The great engine of evolutionary progress has...
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Disease unit opens
Edinburgh University has opened a Pounds 5.5 million molecular medicine centre in the city's Western General Hospital NHS Trust, one of the medical faculty's two main teaching hospitals. The centre...
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FACE the future
A University of the West of England project, FACE (facilitating access to learning for disabled students), has won Pounds 100,000 funding from British Telecom in this year's University Development...
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British duo leads Euro Internet first
Two British universities are leading a Pounds 2 million European initiative to put degree-level courses on the Internet, writes Simon Targett. Distance learning specialist the Open University,...
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Mystic Cheryl
At the National Union of Students' Scottish conference last weekend, executive committee member Cheryl-Ann Cruickshank accurately predicted that nobody would vote against the first motion on further...
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Political footwork
The Dearing review of higher education is set to be a good deal racier than you might expect if Sir Ron's lecture at Brunel University this week is anything to go by. The script released to The THES...
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Kandy treat
Good timing being one of the basic attributes of the top-quality cricketer, one can only admire the coincidence of reports that the battle for an Australian-style Cricket Academy has been won with...
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Cash back
Jim Murphy, president of the National Union of Students and a former student at Strathclyde University, paid tribute to Strathclyde students association's success in having resit fees abolished. "I'm...
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Mike the mouth
Alumnus to be proud of No: 36 is the irrepressible Mike Fitzgerald, vice chancellor of Thames Valley University and self-proclaimed "Kenneth Tynan of higher education," after his becoming the first...
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Yankee doodle dandy
(Photograph) - Yankee doodle dandy: Students at the Washington and Lee University mock Republican convention cheer winning candidate 'Bob Dole' after he was elected as the nominee for president. The...
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Swansea plans for jewels of the Nile
A 3,000-year-old wooden coffin, built for a female musician from Thebes, lies in a dusty storage box, locked away in Swansea University. Alongside it is a limestone offering table, inscribed with...