Glittering prizes
John Lawton, director of the Centre for Population Biology at Imperial College, has been awarded the Zoological Society of London's Frink Medal for British zoologists for 1998, for his contributions...
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The THES Diary
I'll sit this one out Who will be the next chairman of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals? Strathclyde's Sir John Arbuthnott was originally proposed by Southampton's Howard Newby,...
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Bridge over troubled water
Kate Hughes looks at the common aspirations that unite Cyprus despite its geographical and political divide If history had been kinder to Cyprus, the establishment of a university in Nicosia in the...
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Vienna
The Austrian government has promised the University of Vienna money for more research on the causes and prevention of avalanches in the Alps. This follows the avalanche disaster in the Tyrolean...
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Moscow
Inhabitants of an exclusive dacha complex, built 50 years ago for members of the scientific elite outside Moscow, are up in arms over developers' plans to fell a 72-hectare portion of the Zhukovka...
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Padua
A technician at the University of Padua shot one person dead and seriously wounded two others during a disciplinary meeting in the engineering faculty. A union representative was killed outright, the...
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Eye witness
Seventeen years ago global diplomacy failed to stop a conflict over 12,000 sq km of bleak, sparsely populated islands 480 km off South America. Efforts to resolve Anglo-Argentine differences over the...
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Loose ends in bonding sessions with business
The competitive commercial ethos is at odds with traditional collegial co-working, argues Stephen Court The government wants universities to play a much bigger role in creating a strong and...
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Drop-out rates suggest reform not disaster
Drop-out rates for first degree students in England are apparently rising.Before this induces panic there are some important points to make. First, though we now have participation rates comparable...
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Unjustifiable demands
Let me add my voice to Roger Ballard's (THES, Letters, March 12). The spending authority under which my department is placed has asked us to "justify the existence" of the teaching of Chinese,...
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Real quality is a loser
Part one of the analysis of teaching quality assessments ("A quality game where cheating is allowed", THES, March 12) consistently refers to inspection of "courses". Courses are not inspected -...
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No leisurely learning
In your account ("Intellectuals fight 'dumbing down'", THES, March 12) of the Culture Wars Conference, I am reported as saying that "students had been turned into clients and education into a leisure...
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A complete medical check-up
I note, with regret ("Body facts fail medical", THES, March 12) that a spokesman for the managers of Liverpool John Moores University commented to The THES unilaterally about alleged erroneous...
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A complete medical check-up
Your front-page article condemns as flawed and misleading teaching material that one of your experts concedes is subject to academic debate over its accuracy and interpretation. Criticism of a...
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A complete medical check-up
We represent the majority of the teaching teams for degree courses in biomedical sciences, biochemistry and microbiology within the school of biomolecular sciences at Liverpool John Moores University...