Torrie collection belongs to public
An art collection, whose works Edinburgh University contemplated selling during its financial crisis, belongs to the public, the Court of Session in Edinburgh has ruled. While the university was...
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Stargazers learn at a distance
Liverpool John Moores University is to build a telescope that will sit on the Canary Islands but be controlled remotely by astronomers in the United Kingdom. The one-metre telescope will be funded by...
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GP computer use to patients queried
Family doctors who use computers during consultations can help improve their performance in tasks such as immunisation, checking blood pressure and prescribing. But Glasgow University researchers are...
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Russian spy plane takes the super-high way
European scientists are hiring a Russian spy plane and its pilot to fly through high polar clouds and measure their contribution to the degradation of the ozone layer. The pilot will fly the plane,...
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Search for a perfect tutor
The Humanities Institute at Charles University in Prague was founded only two years ago, born in the vacuum created by the disappearance of the old Institute of Marxism-Leninism. But its roots lie in...
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Give our museums back back
Have today's public museums lost sight of their original purpose of educating, informing and stimulating curiousity and imagination? Have they become the sterile preserve of fastidious curators, self...
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Sorbonne heals wounds of 1968
The Sorbonne deserves its prestige and reputation but the ancient university may have to undergo profound changes to face the future, according to France's National Evaluation Committee. The...
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Library director brought to book
Valerii Leonov, the director of the library of the Russian Academy of Science in St Petersburg, faces criminal charges for misappropriation of books under his care. According to the St Petersburg...
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Exams stamp out corruption
Thousands of Chinese graduates have been taking the new national civil service recruitment examinations. Up until now government departments were free to follow their own recruitment procedures and...
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Action threat over 15%
Australia's university staff have demanded an immediate 15 per cent rise in their salaries and warned they will take industrial action if the government does not agree. In return they will support an...
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Information key to entry
We know which universities are best from asking our teachers," a sixth-former at Guiseley School in Leeds told a THES reporter. But how do their teachers know? In a mass higher education system...
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Time to care about those in care
Panic levels have been soaring with the capture of another year's worth of undergraduates. Tutors have outdone each other in displays to attract unqualified adult learners, administrators have chased...
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Gold service for payers
It seems to be an assumption underlying the cross-party consensus on higher education funding that students with differential purchasing power will allocate themselves by time-honoured invisible hand...
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Brutalising experiments
In his article, "The age of reasoning" (THES, September 29), Kenneth Boyd envisages a scenario whereby an individual is temporarily removed from this world and must decide whether the use of animals...
