Shellshocked
Ian Gibson, chairman of the House of Commons science and technology select committee, was in Edinburgh this week for the launch of the Association of University Teachers Scotland's researcher job-...
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Read my forehead
Students are being offered up to £4.30 an hour to wear brand logos on their foreheads. The students must wear them for at least three hours a day while hanging out in highly visible locations such as...
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Final edition for Uzbek paper
The Uzbekistan version of The THES was closed on government orders this week for making grammatical errors, according to Russian television reports. The Uzbek minister of higher and general education...
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Cave life makes a shark of a shrimp
A chance encounter with killer crustaceans led Paul Wood to delve into cave ecosystems, where he found an unlikely predator at the top of the food chain The freshwater shrimps we found deep in the...
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A little titter among the test tubes 1
As the Ig Nobel tour hits the UK, Laurie Taylor recalls his own flirtation with eccentric science I have a personal reason for liking the idea of the Ig Nobel prizes. In the 1970s, I rather fancied...
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A little titter among the test tubes 2
As the Ig Nobel tour hits the UK, a Bernard Levin lampoon from the days before science learnt to laugh at itself My well-known belief that all scientists are mad has just received support so...
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Removing clots from the arteries of our cities
As people around the world reflect on the initial success of London's congestion charge, Stephen Phillips meets the scientists trying to free our streets and get us moving It may have shocked the...
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Study here because you're worth it
League tables impress few would-be students. Universities must be more imaginative in building brand identity, especially with top-up fees on the way, argue Jim Bodoh and Robert Mighall It is hard to...
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I picnic lonely as a cloud...
William Wordsworth may have invented picnicking as we know it, and in doing so, says Andrew Hubbell, helped to reunite a war-weary England Some time at the dawn of the 19th century, William and...
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'Please don't come around, we're having a bloody nightmare'
Hammered by BSE, foot-and-mouth and the recession, British farmers are battling to survive. Matt Lobley and Matt Reed spoke to farming families in Devon feeling the pressure The past few years have...
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Playing field resistant to levelling 1
Has anyone asked employers what they think of lowering admissions criteria for less-advantaged applicants ("Admissions war will be won only with imagination", THES , February 28)? Most students opt...
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Playing field resistant to levelling 2
Sir Geoffrey Holland urges universities to be more like superstores and let students sample services regardless of background ("Former v-c advocates superstore approach", THES , February 21). But...
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Playing field resistant to levelling 3
I left Quarry Bank Grammar School, in the mid-1960s one of the most sought-after schools in Liverpool, after O levels. I studied by myself over three years for A levels but never got far because of...
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Playing field resistant to levelling 4
The access debate assumes that virtually all higher-education learners are studying full time from age 18 to 21 on three-year honours degrees. What about lifelong learners? You have to use a...
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Earn the respect
Deborah Lee's article on student harassment of academics is a strange mish-mash of offensive generalisations mixed with non sequiturs ("Give me an A or you're dead", THES , February 28). For example...