Laurie Taylor Column
UNIVERSITY OF POPPLETON Urban Blight Conference August 4-7 2003 Dear Delegate, I am now enclosing travel details to assist you with your journey to Poppleton for the above conference. HOW TO GET HERE...
UNIVERSITY OF POPPLETON Urban Blight Conference August 4-7 2003 Dear Delegate, I am now enclosing travel details to assist you with your journey to Poppleton for the above conference. HOW TO GET HERE...
This week's analysis of wealth by The THES shows that between 2000 and 2002 the total value of university endowments in the UK fell by a fifth. Most UK universities have weathered the storm fairly...
The European Commission's ruling on when and how its money can be used for stem cell research (page 12) is a masterpiece of tact. But it shows the limitations of research commissioner Philippe...
When Lutz Tietze hung up his lab coat, his students presented him with a collection of recipes from the world's top organic chemists. Karen Gold found the work far from formulaic. A Buchner funnel,...
Tuberculosis lies dormant in about one-third of the human race. Now scientists want to end its slumber, writes Angharad Davies. For two years, my friend's father, Ken, had to strip naked and lie...
The hand made us more than just gifted chimps and put us on the road to becoming self-aware humans, argues Raymond Tallis. Man's place in nature is writ upon the hand," the great anatomist Frederic...
Is the head of a US state university covering for his runaway mob chief brother, or is he a maligned innocent? Stephen Phillips reports. Police caution the public not to approach James "Whitey"...
Efforts to force cars off campus through parking fees have enraged academics. Mike North reports. The fight started with an email. Three weeks ago, on the last day of term, staff at Durham University...
Karen Gold talks to the English professor whose first flingage with Buffy the Vampire Slayer turned into a passiony five-year lexical affair. Angst over grammar much? Michael Adams, Buffy über-nerd...
Carl May writes passionately about free online access to published work (Letters, THES, July 11) but ignores the diversity of journal ownership. Of the three leading medical sociology journals, the...
Carl May conveniently forgets that successfully managing a modern international journal involves editing, distribution and archiving. These processes are complex and costly. If publishers were taken...
There is some very muddled logic in the proposals from the select committee on education and skills to make full-cost maintenance grants available to students from poor backgrounds and paid for by...
Thomas Moston's explanation of why he didn't want to go to university (Why I.., THES, July ) shows how many school-leavers would react given an alternative to student debt and more academic courses....
The British Library's destruction of some of its collections isn't the only activity at Euston Road worthy of comment. ("Pulped books spark fury", THES, June ). The library was built to provide a...
We believe the transfer of courses between the University of Wales Swansea and the Swansea Institute of ÌÇÐÄVlog is based on a flawed view of teaching, teacher education and research. Senior...