Russian elections fail to dampen pioneer spirit
Russian academics have little to fear from a communist victory in the country's presidential campaign if the experience of Volgograd, which swung to the party in local elections last year, is an...
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Howl win?
The question was: "If you subtract five from 87 as many times as you can what will you get in the end? One boy answered: "I get 82 each time." Association of University Teachers' general secretary...
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Audit blasts institute's foreign links
The Higher Education Quality Council is highly critical of Southampton Institute of Higher Education's overseas links in its audit report published this week. It was due to be discussed by governors...
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Bannister bullish about sports scholarships
Sir Roger Bannister is confident that money needed for the sports scholarship scheme he recommended this week will be made available. The Report of the Working Group of University Sports Scholarships...
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Bridge builders
The number of women studying architecture has risen from 26 per cent of the total last year to 31 per cent for 1995/96, according to the Royal Institute of British Architects. There were 2,315...
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Cancer cure hope
The possibility of curing cancer is no longer a pipe dream according to Dundee University researcher David Lane. Professor Lane has won international recognition for discovering the tumour suppressor...
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Students connect to careers on Net
Three-quarters of Britain's students already use the Internet and 30 per cent of them seek careers advice in this way according to research by the Manchester-based Central Services Unit. The CSU,...
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Nigerian murder protests
Nigerian student leaders declared a day of mourning this week for Kudirat Abiola, the murdered senior wife of the detained opposition leader, and other detained and assassinated pro-democracy...
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A shot in the dark
Scientists have jumped the gun in saying that environmental pollutants will cause the infertility of the human race. Where is the evidence? asks Gillian Bentley. The public could hardly be blamed for...
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All researchers need management skills
The effect of highly personalising the article "Stress and the single manager" (THES, May 31) was to overlook most of the main issues addressed by the Association of Directors of Research Centres in...
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Students told to hurry degrees
The Netherlands' controversial study finance scheme has come under renewed fire from students and universities. Their targets are changes to the 1993 legislation that links grants to performance. The...
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Queen's castle dogged by debt
A Canadian university is divided over the potential sale of an unusual asset - a 15th-century castle in the south of England. Few universities in Canada own property that is older than the country...
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Crick and mind over natter
One theory of consciousness rules supreme, Tony Durham reports, while readers reply to one scientist's views. Francis Crick warns that if we are not careful with our approaches to consciousness, it...
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Egghead attack on minister
The Polish minister of national education Jerzy Wiatr was hit on the head with an egg as he attempted to discuss higher education reform with the students of the country's oldest university, the...