A dispute over the copyright of poet John Clare's work has left scholar Simon Kovesi facing legal action A joint letter from 28 scholars and poets including Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Andrew...
Vic Tandy makes the absurd claim that "ghosts are mainly infrasound". Surely, ghosts are hallucinations brought about mainly by infrasound (Why II, THES, July 14). Richard Wilson Bicester, Oxfordshire
Each week The THES research section lists funds available for researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk. HUMAN FRONTIER SCIENCE PROGRAM. www.hfsp.org The HFSP aims...
Why do so many institutional websites fail to put their address and telephone number on the initial page or anywhere obvious? Names of miscreants withheld - and the addresses also. Gerald Vinten...
(Photograph) - Angie Cotterill, a fine arts student at Staffordshire University, mixed spiders' webs with vacuum cleaner contents to make a dress for her final-year degree show. She collected the...
Disputes over data quality are delaying the publication of the latest performance indicators that show the social class of students at each university. More than 20 institutions disputed the figures...
Overseas student fees are subsidising the teaching of British and European Union undergraduates to the tune of tens of millions of pounds a year, according to confidential new figures. The figures...
The Wellcome Trust will spend Pounds 8 million over five years to make freely available to researchers a computer program to analyse the human genome. The program, called Ensembl, locates active...
About 75 per cent of the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency is to be sold as a private sector company in the next year, creating two new organisations. The Ministry of Defence chemical and...
(Photograph) - A three-year degree could replace the diploma in social work as the recognised qualification for social workers, a government consultation document is expected to propose next month....
Several hundred jobs are at risk across more than a dozen new universities. At least 14 universities are planning cuts, with up to 140 academics facing redundancy at Northumbria and a further 104...
Thursday Finish my last administrative commitments before leaving England for five weeks of airborne research. We are investigating the glaciers of the Canadian Arctic and how the ice caps are...
Classes for all students at Burma's 16 universities resumed this week for the first time since the military junta suspended them in 1996.
A protest by students from the National University of Benin over a 60 per cent hike in the price of petroleum products was joined by taxi drivers and market women. Before they could get to the...
The Natural Environment Research Council is investing Pounds 5 million over five years in two British satellite centres to allow scientists to forecast extremes of environmental change. The Centre...