Gender on the urban agenda
Gender issues have been ignored by teachers of urban planning, according to coordinators of a conference in Istanbul. Turkey's first international symposium on gender dealt with the question of...
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PM chooses an 'unknown' as minister
New Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar's choice of a relatively unknown politician as education minister has left many academics wondering what she will have in store for universities. Esperanza...
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Bible belt whipped into fury over 'sex'
Bible Belt morality and Internet sex do not mix - as the University of Oklahoma is discovering. The campus is the latest battleground in a national debate over electronic censorship. This spring the...
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Summer cum laude in Saratoga Springs
Things begin to heat up at Skidmore College, a liberal arts college in Saratoga Springs, up-state New York, when the students leave for the summer. Children as young as six arrive for basketball and...
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Thanks to Japan for the memory
A Pounds 4 million agreement between Edinburgh University and a leading Japanese drug company may lead to better treatment for stroke victims and people suffering from neurodegenerative illnesses...
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Welsh tie to tropics
The ecology of tropical coastal zones is the subject of an unique joint between the University of Wales and Khulna University in Bangladesh. The British Council and the Overseas Development...
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Evolution of pop scientists
Why is Jon Turney so sour about John Brockman and so scornful of his authors (THES, May 10)? Brockman's achievement is to have persuaded regular scientists to write for a general audience. That has...
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Trainspotting
In the week of the Railtrack flotation there can really be only one alumnus to be proud of. No 50 in our series is the man who back in the 1960s began the process the Government is now bent on...
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Particle blast-off
Another year, another Forward Look, that tome of statistics and statements on Government policy on science, engineering and technology across all departments. This year, though, the cash-strapped...
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Dogged breed
Any vice chancellors tempted to gamble their way out of financial problems should heed the findings of research at Southampton University, which shows why "going to the dogs" is such a bad idea....
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Cambridge's dreaming aspirers attack outdated promotions system
Cambridge University dons are up in arms over the university's outdated professorial promotions system, condemning it as "humiliating", riven by "favouritism" and tarnished by "skulduggery". Senior...
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Fen defended
(Photograph) - More than Pounds 70,000 in private donations should save the archaeological dig Flag Fen in Cambridgeshire, from closure. The site was endangered after the withdrawal of funding by...
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Danger: market forces at work
Recently I was privileged to attend a degree-awarding ceremony, organised by the University of Central England for international students graduating in 1996. The occasion was special, partly because...