MEP raises cash alarm
The European Commission should investigate streamlining its funding to promote research into education and training, according to Euro MP Sue Waddington. Ms Waddington, former chair of Leicestershire...
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Animal rights and wrongs
I was disturbed by Roger Scruton's article "Talk on the wild side" (THES, June 28) which suggested humans are morally entitled to eat, hunt and generally abuse what he calls "the lower animals". He...
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Ill-starred treks
A spate of high-profile expedition disasters has unleashed a wave of rule-tightening across campuses and is endangering the future of a brave tradition. Aisling Irwin reports They were four blithe...
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A taste for Moore
(Photograph) - A taste for Moore: is accountability in public art in conflict with aesthetic standards? Psychologist Doug Sandle, reader in visual studies at Leeds Metropolitan University, will chair...
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Giant byte
Researchers at Cambridge University are to benefit from a Hitachi supercomputer that will be one of the most powerful computers in the United Kingdom. With a peak performance of 29 Gflops and memory...
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Interim plea to Dearing
Last Friday was the deadline for English universities to file financial forecasts with the funding council. Not all met the deadline. With a cash crisis looming, THES reporters look at the sums and...
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Degree system is 'third rate'
Quality watchdogs have called for a review of the honours degree classification system following new concerns over "grade inflation". A report which shows big rises in the proportion of first-class...
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Heartening news for equality
Men and women have the same survival rate from heart attacks, according to a study of coronary heart disease. The findings refute the belief that women are more likely to die. Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe,...
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Research cash-till rings teaching crisis
Research and teaching at Danish universities are threatened by an increase in the number of lecturers who receive external research funding and no longer need to teach. As a result, the universities...
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Animal rights and wrongs
It was a great surprise to see Roger Scruton, a right-wing ideologist and keen hunting man, writing for Demos, a respectable left-wing academic think tank. But it was a shame to see him espouse such...
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Obscene but not heard
How can international law ensure children are not ill-treated? Chris Johnston reports A 17-year-old boy is punched, kicked and thrown against a wall during interrogation. His captors pull on his ear...
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Hope for coma patients
A chance observation in a coma patient study has revealed that doctors may soon be able to predict which patients will eventually wake up. A neuropsychologist at Surrey University was looking back...
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Ashdown pledge
Paddy Ashdown, the Liberal Democrat leader, has restated his party's commitment to invest an extra Pounds 2 billion in education, paid for with a penny on income tax. Early years learning would be...
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Centre stage
James Dunbar-Nasmith, emeritus professor of architecture at Heriot-Watt University, can perhaps style himself a "theatrical knight" following the Queen's Birthday Honours. Sir James, who was for ten...
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CVCP gets ahead with a haircut
(Photograph) - The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals has become that much harder to dismiss as a body for the staid and conventional with the election of Mike Fitzgerald, vice chancellor...