Fraud in a scientific journal can range from having the same material published more than once, to plagiarism or the fabrication of data. We do not know how common it is. Some of us who take an...
Poorer pupils are put off HE by a system geared to the middle class. John Beckett argues for change. What does widening participation really mean? I pose the question as the widening participation/...
Risk assessment is under threat when, as foot and mouth shows, it is essential, says Jim Bridges. The foot-and-mouth epidemic has highlighted yet again the need for rapid, independent and high-...
A technique that lets you make a plastic mould of molecules could help clean blood of toxins and perform many industrial applications. Geoff Watts reports. Press a coin firmly into a piece of...
Bujumbura Rebel forces opposed to the government of Pierre Buyoya launched a series of rocket attacks on the National University of Burundi. Students and lecturers fled the campus, which...
Israeli army cuts off campus The Israeli army has dug two trenches in the only road linking the Palestinian university of Bir Zeit to the rest of the West Bank, cutting telephone lines and water...
More men than women are student virgins One in five male students, and more than one in ten women students, are still virgins, a survey of 2,600 students by virginstudent.com revealed today. Lowest...
Financial Times An industry-wide tax credit for research and development, proposed in the Budget, is unlikely to close Britain's productivity gap with other industrialised countries, the Institute...
Royal College of Art The Sir Misha Black Medal for distinguished services to design education 2001 has been awarded to Yuri Soloviev in recognition of his development of the International Council of...
University of Surrey Lecturers S. Fabri , mobile-satellite communications and networking. R. Tandon , marketing. Research officers D. Cox , school of electronics, computing and mathematics. K....
Dr L. Archer (University of North London), £6,660. The role of identities and inequalities on the aspirations of inner-city school leavers. Professor G. Barker FBA (University of Leicester), £13,535...
"The teaching quality assessment exercise has been rendered all but meaningless by grade inflation and gamesmanship" - THES, March 2 . Let me turn immediately to the only item on today's agenda. I'm...
Fred Pearce's review of Vandana Shiva's Tomorrow's Diversity and Norman Moss's Managing the Planet (Books, THES, March 2) seemed to be little more than a Baconian reinforcement. Applauding Moss's...
Fred Pearce's attack on Vandana Shiva is an instructive example of how environmentalism without a recognition of the intrinsic value of nature is vulnerable to the self-serving ideology of...
Matthew Chapman criticises Liverpool University's accreditation of Trinity College degrees in his article on British universities validating degrees from foreign institutions ("Risks in overseas...