AAAS: Brains behind the biggest and the best
Stephen Phillips starts a four-page special on the AAAS with a profile of its head Being president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the umbrella organisation for US science...
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AAAS: Europe hopes la différence will translate into success
Geoff Watts reports on plans for a European conference to rival the AAAS Two fixtures on the calendar of most UK science journalists - if not of a great many professional scientists - are the British...
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AAAS: Ignoring climate will land us in hot water
Climate change will be big at the AAAS conference in Denver next week and the US is likely to come in for much criticism from scientists. "It's very difficult to have a global effort when the number...
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AAAS: Strands of truth twist among the extremes
Half a century after the discovery of DNA's structure, Onora O'Neill asks if we are being blinded by the sensationalism that surrounds genetic advances Lurid examples are a mainstay in discussions of...
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AAAS: 50 years to write the book of life - now we can start to read the text
William Summers looks at the breakthroughs that flowed from knowledge of the double helix Scientists, for the most part, come in one of two persuasions. In the first group are the puzzle-solvers, who...
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AAAS: The epicentre of the rumble in the jungle
Anna Roosevelt has upset traditional thinking about Amazonia's prehistory and its ecosystem, writes Stephen Phillips Anna Roosevelt's findings in the Amazon basin have resonated beyond the confines...
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Sages with no time for Saga
The attention paid to the academy's youngbloods can overshadow those at retirement age or beyond. But Adrian Mourby finds age no bar to valuable scholarship From Botox injections to S Club Juniors,...
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Abandoning the ivory towers to join front line of a social work revolution
Terry Philpot meets a social work academic who left a chair to do what he could not do at a university - combine teaching and practice The climb to occupy a professorial chair is often such a long...
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Eyeing up the future
ICT in higher education, Issue No. 1 Published in The Times Higher on February 7 2003  Leader  'British higher education cannot take the chance that technology is simply another passing fad'...
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Great lecturers build on rules 1
Academics seem to have a knee-jerk reaction to any suggestion that they did not make ("Get out your module maps", THES , January 31). Module descriptors are not an "iron cage", as Todd Landman...
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Great lecturers build on rules 2
I thoroughly support Todd Landman's views on institutional audit, the supposedly "light touch" for universities. Academics are becoming so chained to and restricted by processes that insurrection is...
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Unproven guilt
The argument that someone who downloads pornographic images from the internet without showing or distributing them to others bears responsibility for the child abuse involved in making the images is...
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Spice is a minus
The way to an adolescent's mathematical heart is through the staple diet he or she is fed ("Your task: identify the falling interest rate in mathematics", THES , January 31). Yet official reports...
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ILT will live on 1
Reports of the demise of the Institute for Learning and Teaching in ÌÇÐÄVlog are greatly exaggerated ("Teaching academy could doom ILT", THES , January 31). The ILTHE, formerly the ILT, in...
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ILT will live on 2
The ILTHE is not "doomed" by the white paper proposals for a new academy. It should be a major contributor to its success. In a very short time, the institute has established itself as a professional...