Lecturer accused of spying protests
Robin Pearson, the Hull University lecturer accused of spying for the East German secret police, has described the university's decision to suspend him from teaching until July 2001 as "unjustifiable...
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Oxford painting challenged
A Florentine art collector claims that The Continence of Scipio at Christ Church, Oxford, attributed to Van Dyck, is instead a painting by Rubens. Angiolo Magnelli offered evidence in Rome last week...
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New view of universe revealed by X-ray
The European Space Agency this week released the first images of the universe to be produced by its X-ray multi-mirror observatory. Martin Turner of Leicester University, lead scientist in the team...
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Greatest story ever told
Are ancient Israel, Solomon and David fabrications of a not-so-Old Testament? Karl Sabbagh talks to Philip Davies, who believes the Bible is more fiction than history Sitting in his Sheffield living...
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Scramble for the left, right and centre
Politics professors share their reactions to the first results in the US presidential primaries. Huw Richards reports There is a symmetry about this year's race for the presidency of the United...
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Family friend at the frontline
Ruth Deech cares passionately about babies, which is why she tolerates the hate mail that comes with her role as chair of the government's fertility committee. In the second in a series on the people...
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So you wanna be a rock 'n' roll star?
This time next week we will know the name of the best student band in Britain. Jennifer Currie reports on the first National Student Music Awards Chris Jenkins knows all about putting theory into...
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The 15-year quest to dislodge the 11-plus
Anne McHardy reports on the struggle by two academics to bring an end to the socially divisive 11-plus exam in Northern Ireland's schools Tony Gallagher and Alan Smith are hanging on to a dream of...
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It's a question of balance
There is a four in a million chance that an aeroplane will land on your head. Is this an acceptable risk? Ayala Ochert reports on the US and the UK's conflicting approaches to risk Ten years ago,...
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Agony aunt
Q) A student has told me in confidence that one of my tutor group is taking drugs. I am unsure what to do. Any suggestions? Jacqui Rodgers Principal lecturer Division of psychology University of...
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Put scholarship into teaching
WHAT Good practice needs to be shared and better understood, writes Mick Healey. WHY If teaching is to match research in rigour, it must be open to critical scrutiny. HOW As I write this I am in the...
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Mussel bound
(Photograph) - Mussel bound: Simon McQueen Mason and fellow scientists in the molecular biology department of York University are using the secretions produced by mussels to cling on to rocks to...
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John O Williams
* The photograph on page 2 last week was not of John O. Williams, retiring principal of North East Wales Institute. We apologise.
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De Montfort University
De Montfort University is the only British university registered by the South African ministry of education and legally permitted to admit new students under regulations reported in last week's THES.
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Engineering change
Birmingham University is radically restyling engineering teaching to work more with other disciplines and investing in high-quality staff and facilities. The university, which is celebrating its...