Bunny girls, clones and a comet
The media loves science and scientists increasingly need the media. It is a symbiotic and sometimes fraught relationship. Julia Hinde reports Science, it appears, is suddenly sexy. Where it may have...
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The boom with no yardstick
Postgraduate study needs a framework to deliver quality and standards, argues Robert Burgess A revolution has occurred in higher education in the past ten years as more students choose to engage in...
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A professional in the dock
Is the taught doctorate a 'dumbing down' of higher education or a model idea? Emma Westcott reports The professional or taught doctorate is a little-known qualification which was first introduced in...
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High noon in the lecture hall
Young tutors should be trained to cope with students behaving badly, argue Adrienne Cutner and Isis Brook More and more postgraduates are teaching and there seems to be little doubt that they are...
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Two single females and a slimy supervisor
What happens when a doctoral student finds the intellectual attentions of their supervisor turning into sexual harassment? Deborah Lee reports A good work relationship between PhD student and...
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Is she a news reader or a new Darwinist?
Ambitious young academics should cast off their cords and jeans and get smart if they want to climb the career ladder. Joanne Entwistle reports Last week 55 former academics took their seats in the...
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The insidious erosion of ethics
Cheating is a growing temptation that must be resisted by researchers, argues Dom Wilson Ask a research student about ethics in research and they usually have little difficulty in running off a...
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High fees, no reward
A survey by Eunice Okorocha reveals that foreign students fear British universities are more interested in their money than their education International postgraduate students have expressed concerns...
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Digital Darwin: not apeing books
EVOLUTION. By Mark Ridley. Blackwell Science +44 1865 206179 Pounds 29.50 inc VAT. - ISBN 0 86542 757 7. Macintosh/Windows CD The most revolutionary book of the 19th century was not Don Juan or even...
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NC education first
The Apple-Acorn joint venture Xemplar expects to be first to equip a school with network computers. The Internet-friendly alternatives to PCs will go to Hinchingbrooke school in Cambridgeshire.
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Defused
Students considering a military career can test their skills in bomb-disposal and parachuting simulations on the Army recruitment web site, www.army.moc.uk.
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Humanities launch
Oxford University's Centre for Humanities Computing has been reborn as the Humanities Computing Unit, with new, larger premises and an expanded staff of 12.
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The decisions they face
THES reporters examine the higher and further education issues facing the new ministers May, 14: the official state opening of Parliament.The Queen's speech will set the legislative agenda for the...
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Horse play
(Photograph) - Horse play: riders celebrate the opening of a bridle path on land made available by the University of Hertfordshire. The path will help complete the 'H25' - the horse world's M25 -...
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Physics boost
Your welcome note about the Institute of Physics' initiative to rethink the 16-19 physics curriculum (THES, 2 May) is very optimistic about the cost. We shall need all of Pounds 1 million to have any...