Reductionism holds that even the most complicated processes can be explained in simple scientific terms. Steven Rose begs to differ Reductionism is a portmanteau word; its multiple meanings generate...
On Thursday some four milion people will vote for or against the setting up of a Scottish parliament. It is likely the vote will be successful, so what happens next, asks Lindsay Paterson The debate...
The Government's white paper, Scotland's Parliament, proposes the biggest reshaping of the United Kingdom's constitution since the partition of Ireland in 1922. Next Thursday the electors of Scotland...
The following listing is for research degrees and jobs. Where possible a central contact person or office contact point has been given. Where there are several contact people they have been listed...
Misprint or Freudian slip? A sharp-eyed reader draws our attention to the passage in the annual report of a northern university which explains that the institution had had its staff:student ratio...
Sex performers 'enjoy' their own shows WOMEN who perform in illegal live sex shows may get a sexual buzz from their work, according to new research. Bill Thompson, a criminologist at Reading...
(Photograph) - Ugo de Maio of Southampton University has helped design a gas turbine engine in three weeks. Students from all over Europe have been taking part in the Eurovia European Engine Design...
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 revealed that: * Unemployment is the first destination of 5 per cent of those qualifying at postgraduate level * Unemployment is the...
(Photograph) - No talking: The Cambridge Mummers drama group finds reputation means little in the cut-throat world of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Full story, page 19
LAST week's edition of The THES omitted Warwick University from the list of universities that achieved a five-star rating incomputer science in the research assessment exercise. Heriot-Watt...
FEWER than half of advanced GNVQ exam candidates completed the course this year, the Joint Council of National Awarding Bodies announced this week. The completion-rate for the "vocational A-level"...
In the third of our series on degrees we look at what students can expect from ancient and modern subjects THEY MAY be more career-minded these days but students have never lost their love of...
In the third of our series on degrees we look at what students can expect from ancient and modern subjects WHEN IT comes to studying human behaviour, women are queuing at university doors to...
Whitehall moves to centralise funding could threaten university independence, it emerged this week. Tuition fees could turn out to be little more than a tax on students that would put more money in...
Cambridge University has suffered a defeat in the High Court at the hands of lecturer Gill Evans, who claims the university's procedures for promoting academic staff are "unfair and secretive". The...