So said C. P. Snow in his famous 'Two cultures' lecture. What's changed 40 years on? Simon Midgley finds out Forty years ago Charles Percy Snow, scientist, public administrator and novelist, coined a...
John Davies casts an academic eye over the schedules. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Should we take Europe's far right seriously? BBC2 thinks so; this week it has a "season" about it...
TV's Bionic Man inspired Peter Kyberd to invent a microprocessor-controlled artificial hand. Alison Goddard reports on the young scientist giving one of the Royal Institution's 200th anniversary...
Psychologist Steven Pinker calls Noam Chomsky 'a pen and paper theoretician', while Chomsky criticises Pinker's 'terrible reasoning'. Now Pinker is further testing Chomsky's controversial language...
Vice-chancellors have called for a rethink on proposals for an overhaul of their representative body. They have told a working group reviewing the membership and structure of the Committee of Vice-...
Simon Marsden, director of management information at the University of Edinburgh, has been elected chair of the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA). www.ucisa.ac.uk.
Peterborough Regional College has installed a Pounds 200,000 network linking three sites on two "virtual LANs" for students and staff. The Nortel Networks Gigabit Ethernet solution, installed by...
The salary increase for Paisley University's vice-chancellor, Richard Shaw, in The THES league table of salaries (February 5) between 1996-97 and 1997-98 is 3 per cent and not 11.1 per cent. This...
Last month in The THES..we asked how you split the child care Penelope Griffin Equity research officerUniversity of South Australia By moving back to Australia. Child care for our 16-month-old...
Q) Shouldn't universities be promoting lecturers on the basis of their teaching ability rather than just their publication record? A frustrated pedagogue A) Yes they should and, more critically, they...
British universities and colleges are poorly organised to take advantage of the globalisation of higher education. So warns a discussion paper on higher education in the 21st century prepared by...
The Association of University Teachers wants a "fairer" agreement on intellectual property rights between academics, employers and publishers. The union has drawn up a draft "model agreement" and...
Thousands of students will descend on Blackpool next week for the first National Union of Students conference since its members started paying tuition fees. The impact of fees and new maintenance...
(Photograph) - Oxford University undergraduate Charles Blacklock shows potential applicant Philip Nartey around as part of a 'shadowing' scheme to encourage ethnic minorities to come to Oxford. It...
A two-stage bidding process extending over the spring and summer will pick teams to run 24 subject-based teaching and learning centres. Working under contract to a central management unit at the new...