Paisley tunes into Skye groat song
Paisley University has become the first Scottish university to offer Gaelic speaking students the chance to study the Gaelic economy as part of their degree. The new option in Paisley's BA in...
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Bank chooses nuclear home
A casual observer walking along Lomonosovsky Prospect where it skirts Moscow State University's leafy campus could be forgiven for taking a second look at the large, new logo spread across the top of...
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Egghead attack on minister
The Polish minister of national education Jerzy Wiatr was hit on the head with an egg as he attempted to discuss higher education reform with the students of the country's oldest university, the...
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Suffragette citing
Brian Harrison (THES, June 7) and I have genuine differences of view about the interpretation of sources relating to the prison experiences of the suffragettes in Edwardian Britain. I am glad that he...
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Crick and mind over natter
One theory of consciousness rules supreme, Tony Durham reports, while readers reply to one scientist's views. Francis Crick warns that if we are not careful with our approaches to consciousness, it...
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V-c ranks split in cuts fight
Australian vice chancellors are struggling to maintain a common front against threatened cuts in higher education spending. Despite a plea for unity by Fay Gale, president of their national committee...
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College's ad food for row
Two further education colleges are hotly disputing which is the best in England. The Advertising Standards Authority has ordered Nottingham's Clarendon College to withdraw a brochure describing it as...
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Queen's castle dogged by debt
A Canadian university is divided over the potential sale of an unusual asset - a 15th-century castle in the south of England. Few universities in Canada own property that is older than the country...
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Students told to hurry degrees
The Netherlands' controversial study finance scheme has come under renewed fire from students and universities. Their targets are changes to the 1993 legislation that links grants to performance. The...
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All researchers need management skills
The effect of highly personalising the article "Stress and the single manager" (THES, May 31) was to overlook most of the main issues addressed by the Association of Directors of Research Centres in...
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A shot in the dark
Scientists have jumped the gun in saying that environmental pollutants will cause the infertility of the human race. Where is the evidence? asks Gillian Bentley. The public could hardly be blamed for...
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Asthma jab in sight
A vaccine against asthma could be a reality within ten years, a leading specialist predicted this week. The vaccine would be the conclusion of a fertile area of research showing that people are less...
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New space mission
Space scientists have vowed to rebuild Cluster, the European space mission which exploded just after its launch in French Guiana last week. They want to build a more modest version of the mission -...
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Nigerian murder protests
Nigerian student leaders declared a day of mourning this week for Kudirat Abiola, the murdered senior wife of the detained opposition leader, and other detained and assassinated pro-democracy...
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No freeze on postgraduate roll
My colleague Mike Goldstein expresses his surprise (THES, June 7) that the proposal in the recent review of postgraduate education, which I chaired, to "freeze" the number of taught postgraduate...