Probe sheds light on solar eruptions
Eruptions of gas from the sun, which disrupt power lines and navigation systems if they reach the earth, will be investigated by a solar observatory due for launch next Thursday. The joint European...
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Davies feels the quality on campus return
The concept of a change being as good as a rest gets a ringing endorsement from Graeme Davies, six weeks after his move from running the Higher Education Funding Council for England to become vice...
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Maths chairman attacks standards review equation
Christopher Robson, chairman of the London Mathematical Society's education committee, says he is disappointed by the School Curriculum Assessment Authority's reaction to a society report which says...
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Ulster promotes peace on bomb site
A symbol of hope is to be created in a joint venture by the University of Ulster and Fermanagh district council near the site of one of the worst atrocities of the Northern Ireland troubles....
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Sheffield plans Malaysian college
Sheffield University has joined forces with the Malaysian government in a Pounds 20 million project to set up a new medical school in Malaysia to alleviate a serious shortage of doctors. John Padley...
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New number for worried students
Students in distress will have immediate access to the Samaritans by remembering the new number - 0345 909090 - which was launched earlier this month. The number is designed to avoid delays by...
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Fat lot of good
The idea that body fat is good for you is so unfashionable these days that it is hard to believe it could be true. As a result precious little research has been done to establish the facts. Until now...
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Collaboration sweeps research
By 2000 more than half of the United Kingdom's scientific papers will each be produced by three or more researchers working in more than two institutions or organisations, say researchers at Sussex...
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American students lured by false claims
American foreign study programmes are reviewing the promises they make to students in the wake of legal action against a college that allegedly misrepresented itself as an affiliate of Oxford...
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Gold that is a blend of many coffers
Re the figures on university earnings in 1993/94 (THES, November 3). The commentary contains a serious error. It states that universities' income "has been supplemented by the increasing amount of...
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O come all ye barbarians
I find myself time and time again at odds with the deep conservatism that begins to appear more and more like a virus infecting clerics who work in institutions of higher education in Britain. I am...
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We'll never stand alone
In his article on probation training (THES, November 3) Mike Nellis is correct to assert that probation training should remain within higher education. However, his view that the arguments against...
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Happy with the reign in Spain
It is 20 years next week since Franco gasped his last and relinquished his hold on Spain. But although his democratic successors have been accused of corruption, Huw Richards finds little desire in...
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Poetry in motion
Lucy Hodges meets Paul Muldoon, the Heaney acolyte who wants to rearrange furniture in our heads. Paul Muldoon looked a bit the worse for wear. He was on a poetry-reading tour of the United Kingdom,...