Pounds 10m cuts for Israeli science
Israel's chief scientist Shooky Gleitman is this week trying to come to terms with a Pounds 10 million reduction in the level of government support provided for his office by 1997. The cuts are part...
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Couldn't teach a dog to sit
One of my biggest concerns during my three years as an undergraduate was the variation in teaching quality. As a recent graduate of Leeds University I feel that students' needs have low priority...
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For all creatures great and small
Roger Scruton is more honest than most in defending his pastimes. If the level of enjoyment experienced by horses and hounds is to be used to justify fox hunting perhaps, as the 20th century draws to...
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Write on
He thought he would become an academic, yet - despite a detour into Peruvian politics - his novels are now well installed on literature courses. Mario Vargas Llosa (right) explains to Huw Richards...
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Research rich may prosper
Ministers are set to consider a proposal that could lead to millions of pounds finding its way back to universities for the support of research infrastructure. But it will also lead to a decrease in...
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Who sides wins
"If A-level results are better it will be evidence that the exams and marking are getting easier, if they are getting worse it will be a case of 'I told you so'." We couldn't agree more, Mrs Shephard...
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Scientists take cancer control
The United Kingdom's two main cancer research charities have both elected scientists to their helms for the first time. The changes come as cancer research is undergoing a sea change. The new...
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Albanian protests for profs
Two professors at the unofficial Albanophone University of Kosovo have become the focus of a new civil rights campaign by ethnic Albanian organisations in Kosovo. They are Ukshin Hoti, jailed for his...
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Dear Ron letters
As is our custom, The THES has invited guests to contribute leaders for the next six weeks of summer. This year these will be open letters to the Dearing committee of inquiry into higher education....
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For all creatures great and small
As one of those theologians of whom Roger Scruton disapproves, I do not expect a sympathetic hearing. Yet the tragic fallaciousness of what he expounds cries for another voice to be heard. How...
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Chipping away at the glass ceiling
As a book and university league table today reveal the extent of discrimination against women academics, we focus on two new professors and their fight for recognition - Gillian Morriss-Kay (below...
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Gene study denied grant
Controversial research into the genetics of mental ability has been delayed for at least nine months after the Medical Research Council declined to award it a grant in its latest round. The research...
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EC fraud squad hits UCE
The University of Central England in Birmingham confirmed this week that it was being investigated by the European Commission's antifraud squad over alleged misuse of European Social Fund money. But...
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Turn Coats
Alumnus to be proud of No. 59 is textile multimillionaire Sir David Alliance, whose forthcoming honorary doctorate in law from Liverpool University - following earlier awards from Heriot-Watt, UMIST...
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Marvell idea draws hostile fire
Academic life's capacity for inducing controversy over the unlikeliest subjects was reasserted when a conference on the poet Andrew Marvell concluded abruptly and in mild disorder. The three-day...