Criminal obsession
The propensity for British women to fall for prisoners on death row is to become the focus of a study by Ellis Cashmore, professor of sociology at Staffordshire University. Professor Cashmore hopes...
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Strike ballot
Lecturers in 92 further education colleges across England and Wales will be balloted next week on strike action over pay. College-by-college ballots open on Monday with possible strikes set for...
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Lecturers unite
The UK's two largest lecturers' unions have relaunched potential merger talks following the failure of an existing scheme to achieve greater unity. Executive members of the Association of University...
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Cybercafe imbues taste for learning
De Montfort, once the country's fastest growing university, is planning to build an ambitious cybercafe-cum-tutorial complex which could prompt a new escalation in student numbers via a multi-million...
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Selection of prints has been donated to De Montfort University
(Photograph) - Some day my prints will come: an impressive selection of prints showing large-scale verse by Swiss concrete poet Eugen Gomringer and American visual poet Robert Lax (left) has been...
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BMA targets low-paying colleges
THE British Medical Association has threatened to "blacklist" universities as anger comes to a head over pay disparities between university and NHS doctors. BMA chiefs agreed on October 16 to invoke...
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Mikhail Gorbachev
(Photograph) - Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev was in Oxford earlier this week as a guest of St Anthony's College. He was welcomed by Lord Jenkins, chancellor of the university, to the...
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Rugby death was not the first
Ian Tucker, the Oxford University rugby player who died this week after being injured during a game, is not the first top-class student player to have been killed in this way. Charles McIvor, who was...
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LSE hopes to decide on a new director by December
THE London School of Economics has agreed a shortlist of five for the post of director and hopes to reach a decision within a month. Possible candidates are Baroness Blackstone, master of Birkbeck...
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He could handle cyborgs
Jon Turney resurrects the work of a neglected French thinker whose original ideas on the usefulness and limits of rationality in the life sciences are becoming increasingly relevant. Odd how...
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Menu masters
This week The THES begins a series on a little-mentioned but crucial ingredient in academic life - food. Here, Lisa Jardine reveals her culinary passions, what the Tudors put in their blancmange and...
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Republican Lite?
Bill Clinton looks set to bury Bob Dole in a landslide in next Tuesday's US elections. Not bad for a president who was hugely unpopular only two years ago. How has the Comeback Kid managed this...
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Home View
Universities have always been ambivalent about whether they are local institutions. Most seem detached from their surroundings in the spirit of the ivory tower, and the trend to build universities on...