Calm thoughts
(Photograph) - Calm thoughts: the vice chancellors could try meditation to calm their stressful lives, according to the Venerable Professor K. Vajira (left) of the Buddhist and Pali University in Sri...
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Regions' show of strength
The pivotal role of universities in small towns and isolated regions was underlined at the conference. The University of the West Indies has been a leader in fighting entrenched poverty. Its vice-...
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Did you hear the one about the economist and the sheep?
There is a convention that almost every speech at a conference must begin with a joke. Such jokes can reveal much about the obsessions and bugbears of the delegates. And just what is it that...
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Students forum to take place in 1999
A small group from the University of British Columbia is planning a Commonwealth conference for students to be held next year in Vancouver. The Commonwealth Universities' Student Congress will try to...
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Power to the regions
SWOT opportunities: A growing focus on the regions, exemplified in Spain and now Scotland, offers new opportunities to UK universities. Paul Heywood hopes they will be able to exploit them. It has...
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Industry must exert 'pull' on science base
Industry should do more to exploit the scientific research of universities in the United Kingdom, the incoming director general of the research councils believes. "We need to raise awareness of major...
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Fire fears shut down Moscow university
Although the academic year begins on September 1, students of Russia's premier academic institution may not be allowed to enter their main building because it has breached more than 100 fire-safety...
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Jilted wives group taking off
A support group to help the wives of philandering academics and to press for tighter rules on staff/student relationships has met "widespread interest" in the few weeks since its birth, its founder...
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Education shake-up promised
Ministers have promised a fundamental shake-up of the educational research establishment after the publication of the second damning evaluation of the sector's scholarship in a month. Public money is...
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Grovelling and servitude on the PhD road
Postgraduate study costs more than mere money and time. As Amanda Callaghan explains, the price exacted can also include 20 hours a week as a restaurant lackey. IN THE depths of last winter I had a...
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Welfare has a future yet
Howard Glennerster's article ("Priorities for welfare", THES, August 7) raises issues that go to the heart of current debates. He points out that although real incomes and consumption standards, at...
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Animals and kids
The campaign of the organisation Seriously Ill for Medical Research (THES, August 14), which seeks pledges from anti-vivisectionists that they will not use treatments developed through animal...
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Animals and kids
A vague new group of pro-vivisectionists wants animal rights individuals to refuse medical treatment developed using research on animals. What a cheap and sorry political tactic this is. All of us...
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Animals and kids
Too often, animal rights groups make headlines with their protests. I only wish that there were as many protesters for human rights. How can we put the rights of animals before those of humans? Why...
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Overlooked in Scotland
WE read with amused concern your article "UMIST joins NUS quitters" (THES, August 21). Not only did it demonstrate a total inability to understand why UMIST has taken the sensible decision to...