Natfhe demands investigation
Lecturers' union Natfhe has called on education secretary David Blunkett to investigate The THES's revelations that Derby University admitted students to degree courses in Israel without agreed...
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Should an ivory tower turn fortress?
University life can give a false sense of security - drug abuse, vandalism and theft are constant worries. Claire Sanders reports on campus policing One day last month Alan Naylor, head of security...
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Knocking on EU's door
With massive government backing, Slovenia is developing a high-tech economy, say it's ministers. Michael de Laine reports. Proceeds from privatisation and massive government support are to be used in...
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Mariner marvel
History's greatest prehistoric mariners, the Polynesians, may have first gained their sea legs in the waters between Taiwan and China, a new archaeological study has suggested. Research into the...
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Science of spin
The days of conventional electronics could be numbered. Competing teams of scientists are preparing to announce the creation of memory chips that use the spin and not the charge of an electron to...
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Bay watch
Plutonium from Soviet underwater nuclear tests has contaminated life in an Arctic bay and spread in a plume to one of the world's most important fisheries. In the first scientific investigation in...
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The shooting
International scientists are attempting to shed light on the dynamics of the universe's mass. Paul Bompard reports from Rome One of the most ambitious and costly experiments ever attempted in...
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Researchers at the Gran Sasso laboratory
Researchers at the Gran Sasso laboratory believe they have detected particles that could explain one of the great mysteries of the universe. The details of the discovery will be announced this week...
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Cutting edge
The lives of Russia's street children mirror the post-communist society, in which adults are finding their way in an unknown world Since the start of the market reforms, the presence on the streets...
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The integron effect
Students do better when we focus on how they take in facts and turn them into wisdom, say Barbara Gorayska and Chris Lonsdale Students, looking slightly bored and hassled, file into a lecture theatre...
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Star turn
The manager of Bairds Malt near Edinburgh emerges to meet the coach-load of postgraduates from Heriot-Watt University's international centre for brewing and distilling. "Do you want a beer to start...
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Graduates starting lower on job ladder
The graduate labour market is becoming more diverse and fragmented, with traditional notions of the "graduate job" becoming increasingly unrealistic. The annual graduate review for 2000 of the...
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Labour lean on v-cs
Government has given universities one more year to demonstrate their graduate employment rates. But vice-chancellors are disappointed that the indicator will still be based on the first destination...
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Fighting malaria
(Photograph) - Experts at Liverpool's School of Tropical Medicine are liaising with emergency services in Mozambique to predict outbreaks of disease following the floods. Using satellite weather...
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World Bank enlists HE to narrow poverty gap
A decisive shift in priorities from basic to higher education for the world's poorest nations is foreshadowed in an independent report published this week with the effective endorsement of the World...