National pay deals `at an end'
Universities and colleges attempting to avert an all-out strike over pay are offering staff enhanced local settlements, sparking claims that the national bargaining structure is finished. Cracks in...
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Techno triumphs
Eight further education colleges have received awards totalling Pounds 200,000 for projects using new teaching and learning technologies. Bilston Community College, Bromley College, City College...
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Students fall victim to French law
Research students arriving on exchange schemes as English assistants at Nanterre University have fallen foul of tough French immigration laws. Ten PhD students of United States, Canadian, Indian and...
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Simon Saunders of Coventry University
(Photograph) - Simon Saunders of Coventry University shows off the "ultimate car" for the year 2096 as envisaged by his transport design students. The vehicle, created in collaboration with design...
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Modules to modernity
Initial teacher training is in a mess, in part because politicians abolished quality control. Michael Barber proposes a fresh route to rigour and relevance. Most of the 10,000 new entrants to the...
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The awful choice of Clinton or ...
Honestly, it will be very hard for me to vote for Clinton. I voted for him in 1992 (the first time I voted for a presidential winner). However, his presidency has been seriously disappointing. Though...
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Rare Russian Masonic books stolen to order
Thieves have broken into one of Russia's leading historical public lending libraries and stolen part of a unique collection of rare Masonic books and a copy of the first book published in Russian....
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Walking tapes rock the black ship
When Tokushima University in Southern Japan proposed an international exchange centre for foreign students, local people's first thought was for the safety of their vegetables. Members of the...
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Students launch young voter registration drive
The practice of democracy is a lesson many United States university and college students have traditionally failed to learn, writes Jon Marcus. Twenty-five years after the voting age was lowered to...
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TIGER says missing sink is to be found in forests
Scientists appear to have solved the mystery of where huge quantities of man-made carbon dioxide are ending up after being pumped into the atmosphere, writes Kam Patel. Tropical forests were declared...
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So much, by so many, for so little
LEST my concerns about the RAE1996 are discounted (THES, December ) because they come from a disappointed head of a department that many thought worthy of a 5-star rating, I want to place on record...
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Sharp-edged fuzziness
As the world's pictures are digitised and powerful interests jockey for electronic rights, Charles Oppenheim explores the maze surrounding ownership of diverse works, Roy McKeown describes progress...
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Tightropes and tricky acts
I am not sure if the dog days of Christmas occur before the new year or after it when those who have not gone back to work wish they had done so and those who have resent those who have not. Either...
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Vile bodies
Our thought is so obsessed with the body that it has become trapped in a carcass of its own making. Valentine Cunningham believes it is time to move on. We are all somaticists nowadays. Like Philip...
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Cutbacks shouldn't happen to a vet
Veterinary schools are facing serious financial problems because a doubling of their undergraduate intakes has not been matched by funding increases, says the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons....