Ministers mistrusted on health and science
People are three times more likely to trust farmers than government ministers to tell the truth about foot-and-mouth disease. A survey carried out by Nick Pidgeon of the University of East Anglia's...
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Students in Leeds tarred by sex myth
An urban myth that was reported as fact has led to worldwide stories that prostitution is rife among students in Leeds. James Cemmell, education officer at Leeds University Union, was quoted by a BBC...
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Students attending the London May Day demonstration
Students attending the London May Day demonstration as peaceful protesters were angry that the actions of a few violent individuals reflected badly on them, said Scott Rice, president of the...
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Higher education grants
University of Huddersfield The following have been awarded grants : Prof P. A. Barnes , £248,574 from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (an instrument for the quasi-simultaneous...
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Latest international news
New Zealand needs more academics, say v-cs New Zealand universities need to appoint an extra 500 full-time academic staff to match staff:student ratios in Australia and the United Kingdom, the...
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Latest UK news
Triesman calls for boycott of Oxford Union The Association of University Teachers general secretary David Triesman has threatened to campaign for a worldwide boycott of the Oxford Union for inviting...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Oxford University is to open the world's first internet institute in an effort to put Britain at the centre of global e-research after Dame Steve Shirley, founder of FI Group and one...
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Polishing those pledges before electoral rituals
As the parties fine tune their manifestos, Anthony Barker looks at some key issues that will not win the election. A general election campaign is imminent and "education" will, of course, be one of...
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Give students back grants, urge voters
Voters are unhappy with tuition fees and the scrapping of student grants, according to two MORI polls conducted for The THES in March and April this year. The first showed that 63 per cent of people...
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Calls 2001
Deadline: 28/09/2001
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Laurie Taylor column
NAMING OF BAYS It has been decided after careful consideration that the present practice (see Article 33a) of inscribing the names of senior staff in their Parking Bays will be discontinued. The...
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Letter: Togetherness
I would like to respond to David Head's suggestion that the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England has been inconsistent in its approach to the development of modern languages (Letters, THES ,...
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Letter: Bizarre mementoes
George Blazyca will find an opportunity to display "bizarre items of audit inquisition" (Letters, THES , April 20) on our University of Armageddon website: www.missendencentre.co.uk/armuniv/index.htm...
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Letter: Tripped on red tape (1)
No one will be surprised that the Quality Assurance Agency finds itself in the dock, except perhaps the QAA (Letters, THES , April 20). I am not sure, however, that the right charge is on the charge...
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Letter: Tripped on red tape (2)
The statement that the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council "has a legal obligation to ensure that standards in universities are monitored" is incorrect. No funding council is under such an obligation,...