To the victors, the spoils?
As the nation prepares to mark VE Day, The THES asked a group of historians born after the war to describe the significance of the events of 50 years ago for Britain today. On the first morning of my...
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Rachel Williams
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Formula One car design breakthrough on computer
Formula One car designers have turned to Exeter University researchers for help in creating their latest track-hugging racing machines. The Italian Minardi team describes its 200 mph M195 model as...
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Traffic controls on info-highway
Oxford Brookes and British Telecom have quelled fears that an unchartered route on the information superhighway could become jammed and unmanageable with the development of a new regulating device....
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World bankers come to town
International investment bankers, consultants and academics from all over the world converged on Bradford in April to discuss ways to make social and economic development projects more effective, to...
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Student tutoring growing fast
The success of student tutoring schemes is very easy to measure in one way. Five years ago there were just four schemes, helped with BP cash, sending students in to local schools as tutors. Now there...
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Sacked lecturers as cheap labour
An agricultural college is making six lecturers compulsorily redundant and offering them jobs back as "practical instructors" on half their previous pay. A total of 12 horticultural lecturers' jobs...
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David Willetts
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Battlefront drawing closer
The loophole which allows Russian graduates to avoid military conscription is closing fast. State Duma deputies (members of Russia's lower house) have overwhelmingly backed a new law extending...
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Yale boots out student who forged his grades
Another case of a student lying to gain admission to an Ivy League College - this time a student who fabricated his scores to get into Yale - is causing further soul-searching in colleges and...
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Science seedcorn must be nurtured
Volume I of the Foresight saga is published and we shall soon see how the Government intends to move forward. A report to be published later this month by the Office of Science and Technology,...
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Forward-looking NVQ candidates
Describing the award of an NVQ at higher levels as being "for no more than current competences" (J. J. Sparkes, THES, April 26) demonstrates a lack of understanding of what candidates actually have...
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V-cs gain right to sack staff
Australian vice chancellors have greater power to sack staff following an Industrial Relations Commission decision. The federal commission accepted proposals by the vice chancellors to simplify...
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Law school fights bar
A tiny law school in Massachusetts is taking on the mighty American Bar Association by suing it for monopolistic practices. The unprecedented David and Goliath struggle is expected to last years and...
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Frances Mechan-Schmidt