Bank chooses nuclear home
A casual observer walking along Lomonosovsky Prospect where it skirts Moscow State University's leafy campus could be forgiven for taking a second look at the large, new logo spread across the top of...
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Paisley tunes into Skye groat song
Paisley University has become the first Scottish university to offer Gaelic speaking students the chance to study the Gaelic economy as part of their degree. The new option in Paisley's BA in...
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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. I can sympathise with Francis Crick's irritation that progress in consciousness research...
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Mature way to learn
I was surprised by the "mature students" article reported in the (THES, June 7). It seemed to be the opposite of my experience as an undergraduate. I found tutorials, where the class was made up of...
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Research fears as Spain cuts funds
Spain's new government is to cut education spending by 0.78 per cent cut as part of reductions intended to slash state expenditure by 4.5 per cent this year. How the cuts will be shared between...
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Government tightens control of the professions
Training for the professions is to come increasingly under the control of central government, according to a report out this week. The report investigates the "destruction" of partnerships between...
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Italy under influence
More than 200 Italian academics, including such eminent names as economist Luigi Spaventa and linguist Tullio De Mauro, have formed an interdisciplinary think tank to influence the new Italian...
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Whitehall to run teacher training
Teacher training will become the first area of higher education to have course content set by the Government, under plans unveiled this week. Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education and...
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Canada fertile field of study
Canadian studies, rather like the country it examines, is much bigger than you might think. The latest survey on the subject in Britain, to be published next week, shows that it encompasses enough...
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Healthy managers
A Centre for Healthcare Management opens at Staffordshire University this month, headed by a former health authority chief executive, Jim Bartlett. It will try to involve clinicians in management;...
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Sloppy end to a coup
Alan Sokal's coup (THES, June 7) should be applauded. But in the interest of the "evidence and logic" he upholds, may I point out that it does not follow from his exposure of a widespread and lazy-...
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Peak practice
(Photograph) - Peak National Park and Sheffield University are collaborating on a dig at Gardoms Edge in the Peak District. Bill Bevan, an archaeologist with the national park, works on some carved...
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Thatcher brickbat
Lecturers at Brunel University have condemned the "secrecy" surrounding the decision to award Baroness Thatcher an honorary doctorate. The Association of University Teachers says it will be calling...
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How old is that lobster in the tank?
After seafood lovers have taken a table in their favourite restaurant and selected a fine-looking lobster from the glass tanks teeming with live crustaceans, the question of the creature's age may...