Short term and shortchanged
Every time Christopher Frayling opens his mouth I am gobsmacked at the complacency of the Royal College of Art (Soapbox, THES, November 26). As an artist and educationist, I have been subjected to...
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Short term and shortchanged
Christopher Frayling's article paints a rather negative view of pending legislation on fixed-term contracts. If the staff he employs wish to undertake their duties on a fixed-term basis by mutual...
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Short term and shortchanged
While understanding Christopher Frayling's desire to have "practitioner academics", there are alternative contractual arrangements to those on which he insists for his staff. Why not, as in most of...
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The lost march
We are writing on behalf of all students from the University of Plymouth who took part in the March for Education in London on November 25. As it is more than 150 miles to London, we had to leave...
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Cutting edge
Evolvable hardware produced by Darwinian ideas of circuit formation is making the building of brains superior to ours a reality. One of the great economic driving forces of our age is derived from "...
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On the shoulders of giantesses?
Women in science account for just three out of 170 living Nobel prizewinners and are severely underrepresented at every level. Martin Ince reports on an EC initiative to redress the balance. There...
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Progress in fuel cell technology
The power beneath the bonnet of the green, efficient car of the future will most likely be the fuel cell. Yet the technology needed to convert chemical energy directly into electrical energy has so...
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Elliptic curve conjecture is solved
Mathematicians have solved the 40-year-old problem that Andrew Wiles used to help him tackle Fermat's Last Theorem. The Taniyama-Shimura conjecture had been partially proved by Wiles while he homed...
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New window on a wonder of the universe
In the fleeting glory of their detonation, gamma-ray bursts release more energy than any explosion since the Big Bang and briefly illuminate the most distant corners of the universe. Now astronomers...
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Don's diary
Saturday It is the first weekend in a while that I have properly concentrated on my university work. The extra academic work this year has meant I have had to give up my part-time job in a Christmas...
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Happy ... retirement
Happy birthday to Peter Toyne, beleaguered vice-chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University, who is 60 today. Some of his staff, however, are unlikely to wish him many happy returns to the campus...
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We need edukating
Either the Association of University Teachers became confused over rebranding the University for Industry - now to be marketed to the public as learndirect - or someone needs to sign up for a...
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Ultrasound breakthrough in surgery
Chinese scientists claim to have developed a radical ultrasound technique for destroying cancer tumours. It is to be assessed by British scientists. The team of experts from the Chongqing University...
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The winning ways of men
Of the 170 science Nobel prizewinners alive today, 167 are men. Of other top international prizes open to be won by scientists, the Crafoord prize (Sweden) has been awarded to 38 men and no women,...
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Gum research leads to sticky business with sponsors
New rules for sponsored research in Denmark are planned after a chewing gum manufacturer put pressure on a Danish university to stop publishing research that fails to support its claim that its...