Riot tunnel fails to excite experts
Helena Flusfeder reports from Jerusalem on cooperation and conflict in the region. The recently opened tunnel near Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock that provoked violent Palestinian protests is of no...
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Old rivals pool talents
Helena Flusfeder reports from Jerusalem on cooperation and conflict in the region. By the year 2000, water, not oil, will be the most precious resource in the Middle East, according to a group of...
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Russians lag on the Western front
Russian university academics are lagging behind their east European colleagues in access to Western educational aid projects and the use of modern methods in social sciences teaching, according to...
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Le Pen views pegged back
Leading French scientists have reacted to recent comments on race from extreme right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen by holding a debate and publishing a declaration dismissing Le Pen's statements on...
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I spy with my little data gathering
If you have ever wondered how to assess and interpret huge quantities of intelligence information, Wilhelm Agrell is your man. Starting in November, Mr Agrell will be running a course called "The Art...
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Entry bar angers students
Italian university students took to the streets twice this month to protest against legislation limiting the number of students who can enrol in certain faculties. The target of the protest was...
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Stitched up
(Photograph) - Secretary of state for Scotland Michael Forsyth at the Scottish College of Textiles' new library with a woven portrait of himself made using the college's Scotweave computer program.
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Accountancy action
Nearly half of the members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales think there should be more on-the-job assessment of trainees working towards qualified status, a MORI poll...
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Oxford jackpot
Oxford University's research income has topped Pounds 100 million for the first time, it was revealed this week. Overall research income was Pounds 104.2 million for 1995/96, an increase of 10.4 per...
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Write on
Reviewing books on writing systems (THES, October 18), Oliver Moore makes the remarkable claim that "no one has yet invented a purely written language". John Wilkins invented one as long ago as 1668...
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HERA for equality
I WAS saddened to read Opinion (THES, October 11) as it gave a biased and ill-informed impression of the COMCON project. The project was initiated in 1993 by a group of personnel directors and with...
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Wrong umbilical chord
I hope that the seriously smug Jennie Bristow ("Students who can't cut the umbilical cord", Personal View, THES, October 18) continues to cope so masterfully with "life" as neither Sussex nor Kent...
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Snobbery along the binary line
AS HEAD of a philosophy department in a former polytechnic, where one philosophy programme was validated by Baroness Warnock in the days of the Council for National Academic Awards, I was intrigued...
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V-cs unilaterally disarmed
The Labour party has shot the vice chancellors' fox. The leaders of UK universities, in collaboration with higher education unions and the National Union of Students, have been campaigning vigorously...