Gain with no pain is hope of partners
Leeds Metropolitan University and the University of Bradford have signed a strategic alliance that their vice-chancellors hope will provide all the benefits of a merger "without the pain". It will...
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Journal risks all in fight to use name Leonardo
A lawsuit is threatening the future of a journal that for nearly 30 years has provided a forum for artists who use science and technology in their work. Paris-based financial company Transasia...
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Mass murderer fear chills Siberian campus
Female university students in a remote Siberian city have been told not to go out alone after the disappearance of five young women since July. An atmosphere of fear and distrust has settled on Altai...
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Fighting a lost cause
Alan McHughen argues that ecologists' recent victory against GM crops is hollow because the war has already been lost The acquittal last week of Lord Melchett and the ecosaviours (or ecoterrorists,...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Nick Crossley wrote that student protests are no more, especially in Manchester Keith Flett, London. Nick Crossley's view that student radicalism is a thing of the past is...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novelist with a fascination for Venice: " An unassuming young man was travelling, in midsummer, from...
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Rough and tumble of the shop floor
British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics, Volumes One and Two
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Digging up a past against the grain
Homage to Gaia: The Life of an Independent Scientist
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Pen that proves sharper than the axe to grind
Tainted by Experience
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Flushed? Must be the wine, fire and cholera
Water for Gotham
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Masters of all they surveyed?
Britain's Imperial Administrators 1858-1966
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The curse of commerce
The Business of Books
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Immoral earning power of the few
Market Whys and Human Wherefores
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When three hit a sticky wicket
The Tipping Point
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Older man trouble
The State of Working Britain