The Czech generation game
Prague School of Economics students Petr Polak and Jakub Mikulasek face a future which, like that of many of their classmates, seems brilliant. A western company has just offered them a job. They...
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Top French lab feels the squeeze
The New Year has brought fresh rumours of a radical shake-up at France's biggest public research organisation, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. According to CNRS management, the...
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Regions of doubt
Roger King (Letters, THES, January 12) objects to my warning that the development of universities with a strong regional emphasis could lead to unhealthy rivalry for students. While I welcome the co-...
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One God against the odds
On the basis of his article "From the laboratory to the inventor", (THES, January 12) Richard Swinburne's forthcoming book, Is there a God?, is unlikely to ask what is surely the central question,...
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Slow to criticise
It transpires from Sir Michael Atiyah's 1995 presidential address to the Royal Society (Perspective, THES, January 5) that the society has at long last awoken to the dangers of anti-science. What a...
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Buddy, can you spare a fee?
Fees to pay or not to pay? Stephen Romer sounds a note of warning on the US experience Influential parties in United Kingdom higher education are beginning to think the unthinkable: students will...
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Regents' shot echoes
The story of affirmative action at the University of California is still continuing. The shot fired by the embattled farmers of the American Revolution was heard round the world. The Board of Regents...
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The chattering sexes
All-male and all-female groups converse differently. While women's voices combine and overlap, men take it in turns to hold court. Jennifer Coates explains Having friends is something most of us take...
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The Bible bashers
Keith Whitelam explains to Simon Targett that the Jewish version of the Old Testament is a fiction designed to legitimise Israel and that the history of the Palestinian people has been silenced....
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A reluctant guru on matters between the ears
Howard Gardner talks to John Davies about his theory of human intelligence and his plans to write a book about unusual achievers If Howard Gardner is an authority on intelligence, he sometimes seems...
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Risk-takers show the way
Post-compulsory education from soup to nuts: not a new idea (what is?) but one which De Montfort University has set about realising with uncommon gusto (page 6). The move, pursued stealthily through...
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Sussex listed for Schindler grant
American film director Steven Spielberg has pledged $100,000 of the profits from his epic Holocaust movie Schindler's List to a new centre of German-Jewish studies at Sussex University. Spielberg...
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Schizoid strings attached
Schizophrenia may develop earlier and earlier as it passes down the generations. The discovery is yet another consequence of the discovery several years ago of a significant type of genetic defect -...
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Dining cements dynasties
The increasing tendency to eat out is not undermining family meals - families are eating out together. Alan Warde, reader in sociology at Lancaster University, has been investigating the eating...