Get creative or just get going
Creativity is the instinct universities are now being urged to instil in students. But how? Jennifer Currie reports When education secretary David Blunkett recently defended creativity during an...
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Playing Paris for a fortune
Hilary Spurling unravels the tale of Ther se Humbert, who lied her way to fortune and almost destroyed the French Third Republic in the process I first came across Ther se Humbert by chance six years...
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Dino soars in the farmyard
Palaeontologist David Norman explains how working on a TV series recreating dinosaurs on computers threw up some unexpected insights There can be little doubt that nowadays dinosaurs are big news....
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Aping Darwin
On the Origin of Species may be the book of the millennium, but who's actually read it? Geneticist Steve Jones decided to rewrite it for a 20th-century audience. Kam Patel reports After three years...
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Post-16 revisions needed, says LGA
Key elements of the government's blueprint for post-16 education should be revised, says a senior local government representative. Graham Lane, chairman of the Local Government Association's...
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Readers' reactions
Two weeks ago in The THES... We asked whether all first-year students should be vaccinated against meningitis Name and address supplied It is an extremely good idea to vaccinate students against...
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Hope in a ravaged continent
In an Africa beset by wars and Aids, Brenda Gourley explains how to help African girls get an education. Even a month ago I would never have imagined that I would become a proponent of a women's...
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Strasbourg
A commemoration of the 700th anniversary of the Ottoman historical and cultural heritage in Istanbul to be staged by the Council of Europe later this month has been postponed because of last month's...
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How to...Stop students from cheating
WHAT: There is a fine line between legitimate collaboration and collusion, says Jennifer Moon. WHY: Team working is to be encouraged but lecturers must know how to spot unfair practices. HOW:...
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Soapbox debate
Will universities exist in the 21st century? Do universities turn out too many graduates? Email us on soapbox@thesis.co.uk or join the debate on www.netnexus.org/ext/thes/soapbox
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Jury out on bid to fix university teaching
Only time will tell if HEFCE's new fund to redress the balance between teaching and research will succeed, says Alison Utley. The ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England is now taking the...
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Don's diary
Monday Arrive at crowded Istanbul airport to attend a week-long theoretical physics conference at Bogazici (Bosphorus) University. Tuesday Awakened by what I take to be a mechanical excavator outside...
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The THES Diary
King's 1, Argentina 0 Years of underfunding in higher education there may have been, but King's College, London, is in better financial shape than many major cities and even countries. Credit ratings...
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British Library plans free internet service
The British Library plans to launch a free dial-up internet service in two weeks. British Library Net will provide unlimited free access round the clock, seven days a week to all users in the United...
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Below the belt
Kegs are not a pair of trousers but the word kegs is used to refer to a part of the male anatomy. The slang for trousers is kecks or kecs. Paul Mudie Honours economics undergraduate Dundee University...