Jung's vital deceptions
ANTHONY STEVENS's response (THES, November 29) to my article on the scientific baselessness of Jung's theories of a collective unconscious and archetypes is a perfect example of the evasion and lack...
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Medical research charities
Medical research charities may have lost out on thousands of pounds worth of National Lottery funding because of a misconception that the Charities Board is not interested in funding their research,...
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Councils snub research code
NEW GUIDELINES on research degrees published this week by the Higher Education Quality Council have been snubbed by the research councils. Designed to help institutions check the quality of their...
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Songs go on stream
Edinburgh University is using the latest Internet audio technology to boost research into Scottish traditions and folklore. Edinburgh's School of Scottish Studies, which systematically records...
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Concordia riled the video star
The management of the student-run television station at Montreal's Concordia University has clashed with students over copyright. In its constitution the campus station claims to own all copyright...
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Copyright clash
The World Intellectual Property Organisation has been accused of attempting to rush through a treaty which could restrict educational and research use of databases. One of the draft treaties now...
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Tapping into adult passion
Iain Jones believes concepts of community and citizenship offer important insights both to Dearing and a Tony Blair government. The dignity of Frances Lawrence, the clamour to find folk devils to...
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Bar's metropolitan mindset
THERE are costs as well as benefits to the unbroken continuities of English history. The only monarch to be executed was Charles I nearly 350 years ago, there has been no revolution in more than 300...
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Serb minister hits back
SERBIA'S education ministry has condemned the "blind, destructive" student protests against the government's annulment of local elections. After almost two weeks of demonstrations, the ministry...
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Germany abandons fee reform
GERMAN education ministers have unveiled sweeping plans to reform higher education in order to make the system more cost-effective and competitive internationally. Under their proposals, students...
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Race row unsettles campus coffers
A bitter dispute over Asian immigration and government subsidies to aborigines has alarmed senior academics in Australia. They have warned that the tenor of a national debate about race could damage...
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Screen search for siblings
MORE THAN 1,500 sets of brothers and sisters are being enlisted across the United Kingdom in a bid to discover the genes responsible for high blood pressure. Researchers at Aberdeen, Cambridge,...
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Finds query China's past
AN INTERNATIONAL conference on the Mysteries of Ancient China last weekend was told that the established perception of the centrifugal evolution of Chinese civilisation is out of date. The conference...