Unesco aids peace plan
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has signed an agreement with Unesco to establish an international school for molecular biology and microbiology for peace. The school, initially operating in ten-...
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Jailed student exam plea
Protest is mounting in France over the continued detention of a student facing charges of associating with terrorists. Alexis Corbire is accused under tough new anti-terrorism laws of having given...
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Quest for an IQ test
May I insert one or two conceptual points into the debate on intelligence testing (THES, July 7, 14 ) before it takes off again on predictable lines? Establishing what is intelligence is a conceptual...
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Skin-deep dilemmas
The page in The THES allotted to research is, I am sure, generally appreciated by readers. However, I must object to the form of presentation of the article on "skin" (July 7) which was...
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Sad end to a crusade
The visitor's decision was that the candidate had simply failed to make the grade. On June 30 1995 Mr Justice McPherson, sitting as a visitor to the Inns of Court, dismissed Cecilia Hulse's appeal....
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Natfhe action looms over Derby job losses
The threat of compulsory redundancies at the University of Derby has resulted in a warning from lecturers' union Natfhe that it will take legal action to protect its members there. The union claims...
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Review frenzy sets Royal observatories reeling
The astronomy community is reeling after the announcement of another review of the Royal observatories, which will bring the number of reviews this year to three and continue a chain of studies that...
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Walden found office unedifying
Retiring Conservative MP George Walden's disillusionment with party politics began during his spell as minister for higher education. Mr Walden, who this week announced his decision not to stand...
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Field of dreams
An estate agent's dream: hundreds of people have been turning up to view Westerlands, Glasgow University's playing fields which have just been put up for sale. The interest, however, is not so much...
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Load of Trollope
Politics may have changed since Anthony Trollope chronicled the doings of the nation's elite in his Pallisers sequence of novels, but the names appear to be much the same. Ged Martin of Edinburgh...
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Art form
(Photograph) - Art form: Art foundation students at Yorkshire Coast College of Further and Higher Education, which is struggling to compete with local sixth form colleges.
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Young doctor goes west
Winston Churchill will come under renewed scrutiny from this year's occupant of the visiting chair in British history at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri. The Robertson chair, established in the...
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Torry Laboratory rescue group remains optimistic
The Aberdeen Research Consortium has not lost hope that the work of the threatened Torry Food Science Laboratory will remain in the city despite a Government decision to close it next year. The...
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Cosmetic calling for the pea
The humble pea could soon be the source of plastics and ingredients for lipsticks, potash and match heads, if research at the John Innes Centre in Norwich is successful. The products have an...