Climate could suffer in volcanic winter
* Supervolcanoes pose a natural threat to climate, dwarfing that of man-made effects, MPs were warned this week. A "volcanic winter" caused by a major eruption could upset the climate for years,...
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Welsh transform post-16 education
* The Welsh Assembly's education and training secretary, Tom Middlehurst, has confirmed plans for reform of Wales's post-16 sector. The assembly's post-16 committee has endorsed plans proposed by the...
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Manchester helps locate Mars probe
* Radio astronomers at Jodrell Bank have joined the hunt for the Mars Polar Lander. The Manchester University experts are to turn their 76m antenna towards the planet to listen for signals from Nasa'...
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Cutting edge
Forget fortress mentality, the way to keep out hackers is to increase the speed of detection and reaction to system intrusion. How many computer hackers can fit on the head of a pin? Can bin Laden...
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Current sources for research funding
Each week this section lists funds available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk. ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH www.ma.hw.ac.uk/RSE BP/RSE Research...
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Students advise on aid to E. Europe
PRISTINA Europe's students are playing a key role at the highest level in drawing up plans to aid the growth of higher education in Kosovo and other parts of southeastern Europe. Proposals from the...
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Brits at risk in Malaysian market
KUALA LUMPUR British universities are getting their fingers burned by dabbling "naively" in Malaysia's unregulated and rapidly expanding private higher education sector. Experts in Kuala Lumpur have...
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I'm getting married in the morning...I hope
* They say the course of true love never runs smooth, and this has been borne out by the first weddings hosted by Manchester University's newly licensed hospitality and conference centre. Bride...
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Vice-chancellors' pay: clarification
* The vice-chancellor of South Bank University earned a total Pounds 125,000 for 1998-99, including benefits, performance-related pay and pension contributions. The principal of the Royal Northern...
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Call for camaraderie
In an issue (THES, January 28) that has Frank Furedi telling us what Theodor Adorno told us concerning bureaucratisation ("Wake-up call", THES, January 28), a Natfhe advertisement urged us to send...
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We pay our own way
The salary of the dean of London Business School or any other member of faculty at the school is not paid from public funds ("Uni boss's pay tops Pounds 250,000", THES, January 28). LBS is...
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Write and wrong
I would like to add my own observations to Alan Lovell's (Letters, THES, January 28). The department in which I teach has highly qualified applicants. Indeed, we approach Oxbridge norms in having...
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Write and wrong
The important development is not that 20 per cent or even 60 per cent of students cannot write accurately. One or two indeed will be incapable of writing anything but near gibberish. What is more...
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Virgins, sex and drugs
Surely, Nottingham University should have been immediately suspicious of anything styled the Virgin Institute of Fertility (THES, January 28). As a BBC commentator once famously remarked of the...
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Virgins, sex and drugs
On behalf of all staff in this office, can I disclaim any involvement in the activities alluded to by Laurie Taylor regarding "Torrid nights of sex and drugs in F block" (THES, January 28). At least...