Grants-by-fraud hit institutions
Local education authorities and universities are complaining that their attempts to crack down on fraudulent grant applications are being penalised by Government policy. They want the Government to...
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Robots steeled to mend bridges
The expensive and hazardous business of repairing steel bridges could become a lot safer and cheaper with the help of robot technology developed by the defence industry for the remote disposal of...
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Disabled get raw deal from film world
Cinema presents twisted and stereotyped views of the real lives of disabled people, according to Paul Darke's research at Warwick University. Mr Darke, a postgraduate researcher in the department of...
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Scots look at stress on the rocks
A group of scientists at Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt universities can genuinely describe their research as ground breaking. The Edinburgh Rock Mechanics Consortium has been investigating how rocks...
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Angolans in raid on Moscow embassy
The plight of 900 Angolan students, stranded in the former Soviet Union without means of support, is causing "extreme concern", according to the Russian foreign ministry. The Angolan government has...
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Law dean quits after arrest
The dean of the faculty of law at the University of Nairobi has resigned following his arrest and detention for three hours at a police station for discussing political matters over a cup of tea with...
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Western lefties baulk at new mind set required
The answers to Perspective's questions (THES, August 4) reveal another difference between pre-war appeasement and today's Balkan crisis. In the late 1930s, European liberal and left-thinking circles...
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Summer of discontent
A third semester would reduce choice and damage the quality of higher education, argues Ann Cotterrell. Some institutions are to receive funds to cover the set-up costs of a teaching semester in the...
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A fine old mess we've got into
The clearing season is moving into full swing. A-level results are out, people are looking for places. Institutions have geared themselves up for clearing - additional phone lines are staffed;...
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Poisoned ink
Zhores Medvedev reports on the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the bulk of Stalin's personal archive. This year academics in both East and West have been able to take advantage of several...
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Summer breeze?
Academics, it is commonly supposed, spend their time during the summer getting intimate with Tuscany. So The THES asked four of them what they area ctually doing. John Kidd Director of the James...
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Worth more than my job, mate
When Huw Beynon published his first book it met with jeers and denials. He tells Martyn Kelly about the trials of investigating the shop floor. When I was a student I was strongly influenced by E. P...
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A little thanks for the memory
One school of thought has always held that, as institutions at the intellectual cutting-edge, universities should encourage architectural innovation. But the example set by the School of Oriental and...
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Balancing act
(Photograph) - Balancing act: Steve Faulkner has been selected for the first academic circus and performing arts course at the former Hackney power station in East London, to be run by The Circus...