The last of a new breed?
Biologists classify the living world hierarchically into phyla, classes, orders, families, genera and species. Within the phylum of vertebrates, for instance, mammals constitute a class; carnivores...
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Proceed with extreme care
For all its medical potential, cloning is still an unknown quantity, report Clare Mills and Jaap de Roode. Once the very symbol of cloning, Dolly the sheep is suffering from premature arthritis in...
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Ready, willing but unable to work
Highly qualified, English-speaking doctors who have escaped oppression, civil wars and torture are being prevented from practising in the UK for want of a formal language qualification. Claire...
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Findings: Astronomers make stars
There was a new star in the sky over the island of La Palma last May. The British astronomers who were monitoring the phenomenon observed it again this January. Yet its appearance was no surprise -...
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Findings: Bone marrow breakthrough
A team of tissue engineers has produced the first three-dimensional bone marrow in culture, leading to hopes of transplanting into patients bone marrow that will function immediately, writes Caroline...
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Pushing 50: They sign on, turn up but fail to tune in
Universities are having to make intellectual compromises in their pursuit of bums on seats, but many lecturers are reluctant to speak out for fear of losing their jobs or ruining reputations. Mandy...
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Log on to student motivation
Pat Leon speaks to lecturers who use online multiple-choice quizzes to focus tutoring sessions and enthuse the class. Like many traditional universities, the London School of Economics believes in...
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Sophisticated action
Wyn Grant's suggestion that "direct action, when it works, may stifle political action" (Features, THES , April 19) is based on questionable assumptions and representations. Grant appears to blame...
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Getting equal through absurdity 2
Malcolm Keight is surely right to query an approach to pay equality that starts with job evaluation when so many other issues generating inequality can and should be considered first. But pay is only...
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Time-warp teaching? 1
I doubt that the lack of academic response to Michael Loughlin's fundamental article (Features, THES , March 22), is due to fear. Far more likely is that most academics do not seem to think of...
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Time-warp teaching? 2
Any fundamental review of higher education, such as that announced by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, should direct research policy and funding to support research and scholarship...
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Manage your boss
Your report about concern over the purchase of a Georgian house for Bath University's vice-chancellor (News, THES April 26) is just the latest example of the consistently bad press that the...
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Getting equal through absurdity 1
Little will be achieved by removing pay inequalities within institutions if the basis for unfair discrimination shifts from gender or race to geographical location ("Equality requires commitment",...
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Institute for TransUranium Elements (ITU) trains EU enlargement countries on combating illicit trafficking of nuclear material
Karlsruhe, Germany, 01 May 2002 Following the first session of the joint training workshop in January 2002 at Institute for TransUranium Elements (ITU), from 15th-19th April more than 20...
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Today's news
New roborat moves at click of a mouse Scientists have turned living rats into remote-controlled, pleasure-driven robots that can be guided up ladders through ruins and into minefields at the click of...