British guide to IT
A task force to advise government on the creation of a society at ease with the rapid developments in information and communications technologies should be set up by the end of this year, according...
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Temple of learning needs no new gods
Who would refuse a Pounds 20 million gift for a new management school? Oxford University's Alexander Murray would A proposal is afoot to build a school of management studies on a playing field near...
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'Bandit', aged 1,500, gives France a headache
Some of France's most potent demons, extreme-right nationalism and the unhealed rift between Catholics and secular Republicans, have been awakened, if not yet fully unleashed, by the anniversary of a...
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Start-up trouble
Alumnus to be proud of No. 60 went to Wandsworth Technical College and made what could be regarded as a false start in life, working as an assistant cashier at Wandsworth Co-op and then as a civil...
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PFI gets v-c thumbs down
The much-vaunted private finance initiative - trumpeted by the Treasury as the answer to higher education's financial problems - is inappropriate and "unaffordable", according to vice chancellors....
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Internet news
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features reviews and advertisements in the newspaper. Job advertisements are updated on the Tuesday before publication of...
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Running fever over glandular issues
Helen Wallace of Greenpeace (THES, June 28) suggests that we take action on the basis of perceptions of problems rather than researched problems. The list of synthetic chemicals which might be shown...
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Mother endows suicide chair
A woman whose son took his own life has helped make possible an endowed chair in suicide studies at the University of Toronto. Doris Sommer-Rotenberg has helped raise Can$1 million (Pounds 490,000),...
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Revisionist advice
A frustrated psychology professor at Simon Fraser University in Australia has issued the following advice on writing undergraduate essays. Avoid the library and stay at home among your well-worn...
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The law of the jungle book
Sanjida O'Connell explains how she used her PhD thesis on chimps to write a novel, an extract of which is opposite. She felt like Jesus. All around her the field of flowers shimmered, slick with dew...
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Real force needed to smash ceiling
The attention given in The THES to the so-called "glass ceiling", better described as the undervaluing and under-recognition of women academics, is most welcome. it prompts two thoughts about how to...
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Trek from mean streets to masters
Almost ten years after leaving the streets of Regina, Canada, where she worked as a prostitute, Sharon Acoose left the city's university with a masters degree. Under her belt was a year-long research...
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The hand of God
Keith Ward's article and the accompanying book review (THES, October 11) made sad reading. It seems that the science-and-religion debate is still being carried out in terms of "Did God create the...
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The golden irretrievable
Stop harking back to a non-existent golden age, urges Geoffrey Alderman. To foil the nationalisers the sector must self-regulate on standards without delay.. Standards now top everyone's agenda. As...
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Keep external degrees an internal affair
Just how transferable is a university degree course? In the latest issue of The Manager, Alistair Somerville Ford, chief executive of the Institute of Commercial Management, tells the story of Onn...