Better to rethink than to raid research
It is unfortunate that the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service's processing of student applications for 1999 has been delayed by a move to larger premises. This is the first year in which no...
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The day British science flowered for Mr Blair
Scientists hope their visit to No 10 has whetted ministers' appetites for fresh policies. Olivea Judson reports The day before the air strikes began against Iraq, prime minister Tony Blair found...
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Scientists of the world unite to stay independent
Scientists around the world are feeling optimistic. They have new money and - as our supplement (pages 21-28) on the American Association for the Advancement of Science shows - new challenges to...
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Nursing a grievance
We were saddened and angered by the emotive and ill-informed attacks on nursing, nursing shortages and higher education ("V-cs defend nurse training", THES, January 15). We are surprised that...
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Letters in brief
If Bill Thompson ("Why I plan to carry on smoking", THES, January 8) really does his thinking with his motor neurones, I'm not surprised he is patron of an organisation as stupid as Forest. John...
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Readers reactions
Earlier this month in The THES.. Marie Denley argued that women should have made the shortlist for the Today programme's Person of the Millennium competition. The exclusion of women from the Today...
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Age less at 90?
Who is more aged, a 90-year-old or a 100-year-old? And, yes, it is a trick question. The answer, according to Michael Rose of the University of California, Irvine, is neither. The 100-year-old may be...
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Onward, noisily
Tim Cornwell finds that in its 150 years, the association has not only not kept out of politics but has sometimes invited it in. One hundred and fifty years ago last year, the American Association...
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Diet hell by heaven will wait
Calorie-restricteddiets could be the secret to a longer life. Ayala Ochert,reporting on the latest research, finds out that less really is more. At long last, the secret to a long life is out - but...
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Eric Haseltine
(Photograph) - When Eric Haseltine, chief scientist for Disney's Imagineering, says some of the actors in the film Titanic are not real, he is not casting a slur on Leonardo di Caprio's acting skills...
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First great city of the 21 century
Through its Connect initiative, San Diego is striving to usurp Silicon Valley as the byword in high-tech, Elliot Parks tells Martin Ince. Meeting this year in California, it is no surprise that the...
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Finding a job in the US
If you are a postdoc scientist looking to enhance your career prospects, the United States could be a good place to start. Although the United States is one of the easier foreign countries for...
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IT boom may force colleges back to the basics
According to one professor, information technology could make universities return to their core values of nurturing young minds. Julia Hinde reports. The explosion in information technology will...
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High-tech holds the key to global stability
Science and technology need a new dispensation for the new century, according to Roger Dittmann, national coordinator of the US Federation of Scholars and Scientists, who is speaking at the AAAS...
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Thai universities fear 'civil war'
University leaders in Thailand fear their institutions could become embroiled in a "civil war" over radical wide-ranging higher education reforms before the Thai parliament. They say government plans...