English hold own in world maths league
English university entrants maintained their high achievements in maths and science relative to other countries over 20 years, according to an international round-up of educational achievement....
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Raising the roof on the mists of time
A Bronze Age timber house on stilts is being reconstructed for the first time in nearly 2,000 years, in a loch. Nicholas Dixon, research fellow in archaeology at Edinburgh University, and his team...
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British Library at the 'interchange'
The British Library has remodelled its research and development department as a national centre for analytical research utilising the latest online computer technology. The library has restyled its...
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Basic instinct
Dear Ron, I note that your committee will be concerned with higher education's contribution to basic, strategic and applied scientific research and how it should be enhanced to match international...
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Principal blew ESF whistle
The Department for Education and Employment has launched a major investigation after a college head blew the whistle on irregularities connected with potentially large amounts of European Social Fund...
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Software to combat disasters
University scientists have designed a unique computer software package to help avert such tragedies as the Heysel Stadium disaster, the recent bomb explosion in Atlanta, or even the Estonia sinking....
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Class pass
(Photograph) - Picture by Sam Atkins. A rugby computer programme designed by John Duckles (above), a sports science and physiology graduate from the University of Leeds, is being used by some of the...
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Not making Llosa sense
Why was Vargas Llosa's use of the expression "complete buggles" for the influence of Derrida and Lacan a linguistic error (THES, July 26)? Given Vargas Llosa's command of English, and his literary...
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Duty and the beasts
Thanks to BSE fears over food have rarely been greater. But they have not been matched by an outcry over the fate of the cattle destroyed. Are concerns about the welfare of animals and the philosophy...
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Top-up fees:a breach of contract?
Universities are seeking legal advice about the implications of a rapid implementation of top-up fees. The issue is officially on hold until after the next Budget, following which the Committee of...
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Doctorates in need of new direction
A redefinition of PhDs is urgently needed to end confusion among postgraduates and avoid an international downgrading of British research degrees, according to the National Postgraduate Committee....
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Door-stepping
(Photograph) - David Mansell. Students from Keele and Oxford Brookes University volunteered to work for the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers this summer, repairing the tourist attraction of...
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Ethnic monitoring is more mature
Ethnic monitoring is more sophisticated than ever, according to the University of Warwick's centre for research in ethnic relations. Making Monitoring Work argues that the standard of ethnic...
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MacAcorn
Xemplar Education, the Acorn/Apple joint venture company, is developing a computer which will run Apple's Mac OS and Acorn's RISC OS operating systems. A StrongARM processor, the most powerful...
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Don't belittle teaching duties
Laurie Taylor (THES, July 26) quotes Graham Zellick, vice chancellor, University of London: "The highest quality in research is intrinsically more important than the highest quality in teaching."...