Russians dying for a drink
Are more Russian men dying from alcoholism because the government finds sozzled citizens easier to control? Zhores Medvedev reports on a country awash with alcohol. In 1988 1.57 million people died...
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Mown down
Tragedy has struck at the Australian National University. Flotsam and Jetsam were elected visiting fellows with a free grant of grass earlier this year. But the tenure of the two lawn-mowing rabbits...
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Franchise brochures jumped gun
Students pay towards their higher education and want value for money. THES reporters look at the university appeals system and what happens when degree courses are not all they were advertised to be...
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A voice for lost innocence
For over 20 years some 100 children in one county were sexually abused while in care. Jane Tunstill was a member of the inquiry into what went wrong, but its report was never published. Now at last,...
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Fact is, there are some absolutes
The distrust expressed within the social sciences towards the physical sciences - and, by extension, towards their practitioners - is profound. As someone from a physical science background (medicine...
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Bali, Hi!
Anyone wishing to heap either congratulations or opprobrium on the head of Ted Nield, who has taken the small step from composing Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals press releases to...
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Doctoral supervision may be in trouble
John McGinnety (THES,July 5) like Anthony Cohen, misses the point made in the Higher Education Funding Council for England "Harris Review", the Royal Society "Harrison Report" and indeed the United...
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Panhellenic exam era ends
The selection of university students will alter radically in Greece from 1999 if draft legislation put before parliament by education secretary George Papandreou is approved. The gradual abolition of...
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Highfliers: Steven Lister and Steven Little
(Photograph) - Highfliers: Steven Lister (right) and Steven Little are part of the team of final-year students from the University of Humberside that has won the British Model Flying Association's "...
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Scone in a jam
The excitement over the impending return of the Stone of Destiny to Scotland has been slightly tempered by learned articles explaining that the Scots actually nicked it from Ireland. When Irish...
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Fight for certificate without errors
Students pay towards their higher education and want value for money. THES reporters look at the university appeals system and what happens when degree courses are not all they were advertised to be...
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Checking links of quality and funding
Would a tie-up between excellent teaching and extra funding be a valid and fair system? Stephen Court investigates the unevenness in key HEFCE findings. Should funding be linked to high-quality...
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Spinning discs
Following on from the British disease comes the Celtic virus. If the Research Assessment Exercise produces bizarre outcomes for certain institutions, the Higher Education Funding Council for England...