Eye of the beholder
鈥淗ard-nosed publisher鈥 Stuart Hay recently commissioned a monograph from me, although I am an unknown author. Like Hay, I鈥檓 puzzled about Valentine Cunningham鈥檚 withering view of publishers (THES,...
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Pisa
Underground excavation work has begun to try to reduce the tilt on the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Michele Jamiolkowski, a geotechnics professor at Turin Polytechnic, is heading the expert team which...
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The breaker
(Photograph) - Northumberland College students Mark Watson and Janette Iredale display their entries for a tie-designing competition that was part of their GNQV art and design course. Ms Iredale won...
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Beijing
More Chinese scholars than ever are returning to work in China after completing overseas studies, the ministry of education says. The number of returning graduates has risen by an average annual rate...
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Ottawa
Canada's federal budget allows for spending of Can$1.4 billion (Pounds 578 million) on medical research and innovation over the next three years, of which Can$240 million will be directed to a new...
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Oslo
Tove Bull, rector of Tromso University, Norway, has been elected leader of the Norwegian University Council for a three-year period. She succeeds Lucy Smith, former rector of Oslo University. Ms Bull...
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Sofia
The governments of Bulgaria and Macedonia have signed an agreement that paves the way for improved contacts, cooperation and trade by including the acceptance by Bulgaria of Macedonian as a separate...
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In the news
The career of Ron Amann, chief executive of the Economic and Social Research Council, has crept ever closer to the heart of policymaking. From July, as director of the new Centre for Management and...
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Glittering prizes
Fellowships of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama have been conferred on: Alan Duncan, business consultant, former managing director of the Duncan Group and governor of the academy since...
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On the move
Graham Henderson, former director of Sunderland Business School, has been made deputy vice-chancellor (academic and development) at the University of Teesside. A raft of new appointments has been...
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Washington DC
A government survey has found that fewer than half of all American teachers consider themselves prepared for the demands of working in public schools - raising standards, handling students with...
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Deep into 'bandit country'
Gerd Nonneman meets amiable Kalashnikov-carrying Yemenis in a country struggling towards unity I returned from Yemen just as the news of the fatal hijacking erupted last December, and before the...
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Getting ahead
(Photograph) - Education minister Baroness Blackstone visits a hairdressing workshop at Cato Manor Technical College in Durban during her visit to South Africa. Photograph: Patrick Mtolo.
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES.. Graham Zellick urged the government not to ask people about their religion in the next census Peter Harvey. Professor of Buddhist studies, University of Sunderland Graham...
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Are agriculture departments being swallowed up by schools of biology?
How to keep ahead of the herd Are agriculture departments being swallowed up by schools of biology and why does it matter? Email us on soapbox@thes.co.uk