The future of science in a vacuum
In last week's THES the Science Minister, David Hunt, referred to British scientists' "unrivalled contribution to scientific knowledge and understanding". We still have, he said, "world-class...
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Minister promises grant increase
Germany is to increase federal grants for students this year, the new federal education and research minister, Christian Democrat Jurgen Ruttgers, confirmed. Presenting his priority areas in Bonn, Mr...
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Student leader murdered
The leader of one of Algeria's main student unions was murdered in Algiers last week by suspected Islamic fundamentalists. Abdelhafid Said, who was president of the General Union of Students, became...
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Clinton casualty stokes legal row
Lani Guinier, the law professor who caused a furore in Washington when President Clinton nominated her for the job of assistant attorney general for civil rights, is creating new controversy where...
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Sex-net student is gaoled
Anyone tempted to pour out their sexual fantasies into the Internet global computer network should beware. They may find themselves investigated, arrested and charged by the FBI. That is what...
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Subjective judgement in the ranks
Academic league tables in Russia have proved too hot for the state to handle, Nick Holdsworth reports. University league tables in Russia have proven to be as hot a political potato for ministry...
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Academics call for cuts in `quality'
A deep split has emerged between Australia's vice chancellors and the nation's academics over the future of the federal government's Aus$80 million (Pounds 40 million) quality assurance scheme. The...
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Disoriented
(Photograph) - Aisling Irwin reports from the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Atlanta. Disoriented: the case of `hybrid' orangutans has raised fundamental...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a Viennese who worked for the BBC during the Second World War: "Artists, we trust, will always be born. But whether there will also be art depends to no small extent...
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Speaking Volumes: Homicide
Anne Campbell on Martin Daly and Margo Wilson's Homicide . I confess. I was, for a time, awe-struck by verbal sophistry. It began when a reviewer described one of my books as "refreshingly free from...
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Scottish FE allocations increased by 4 per cent
Scotland's 43 further education colleges will receive Pounds 229 million in the coming year, an increase of 4 per cent. Forty per cent of individual college grants are based on student numbers in...
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UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS. The University of Wales Press is to publish new editions of The Companion to the Literature of Wales and its Welsh equivalent Cydymaith i Lenyddiaeth Cymru. The volumes...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW. DEng: Evelyn Hu, professor of electrical and computer engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara; Alistair Macfarlane, principal and vice chancellor of Heriot-Watt...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS: Research councils Professor W. Sibbett, Pounds 92,732 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (100FS diode-pumped oscillator for vulcan); Dr R. Field, Pounds...
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Events
THE BOOK GARDEN. The John Rylands Library, re-opens on March 6. One of its exhibitions "The Book Garden: artists' books from the former USSR" is showing from March 17 - May . The library is open...