Tony Durham delves deep into astronomical literature on the web with the help of an ingenious method of library classification based on the brain Astronomy is about space. So perhaps it is quite...
BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY www.biochemsoc.org General Travel Fund The society has a fund from which grants are made available to assist eligible members in meeting the cost of attending scientific meetings...
The Prince of Asturias, the Crown Prince of Spain, has been made a patron of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. The prince has launched a high-tech research fellowship for Spanish academics. The...
A cyanide-tainted waste spill from an Australian-owned gold mine in Romania threatens an Eastern European political crisis as well as an environmental catastrophe. Thousands of fish have been killed...
Thinking of attending an academic convention? That's fine, says Harvey Kaye, just bring your pillow Three days in a Chicago hotel for the 114th American Historical Association convention, surrounded...
Human Rights Watch has accused China of attempting to interfere with the free flow of information at home and abroad, including academic research in open sources. It says a strong resolution...
Three years after Hungarian politicians created an uproar in academia by sacking thousands and introducing performance-linked pay, plans are being drafted to change the way universities are funded....
Italy's six top higher education institutes, catering for an elite of graduate and postgraduate students, have formed a permanent national network of cooperation and joint ventures in teaching and...
The University of Pristina's mining and metallurgy faculty in the border city of Mitrovice continues to be divided along ethnic lines despite efforts by the international community to reconstruct a...
Andrei Marga has resigned as Romania's education minister after criticism from MPs that the country's education system faces collapse. In an open letter, the three leading opposition representatives...
David Thomas reports on the international effort to preserve the lifeblood of Vietnamese coastal communities from further destruction Between 1961 and 1971, 19 million gallons of the deadly herbicide...
Pat Leon meets a woman who helps her students unlock the power of archives and separate the political from the personal Under the blue and copper eye of the Mass-Observation archive clock, Dorothy...
SPACE FOR RENT OR TO LET: Russian-built space station. 4 reception rooms, 2 bedrooms. Built in the Gorbachev era to full Soviet standards. Internal decoration and some external work required. Faulty...
Justine Stephens General secretary Goldsmiths College student union We sat in the Department for Education and Employment for four and a half hours last Friday and were then offered the chance to...
Last month in The THES... Frank Furedi argued that bureaucracy has killed the spirit of academics David Yeomans Liverpool University What research has gone into the validating of the bureaucratic...