Osh
Archaeologists excavating what has been tentatively identified as the site of ancient Osh in Kyrgyzstan reported dateable fragments of pottery. Osh will celebrate its 3,000th anniversary in 2001 with...
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Djakarta
Nine anti-government students were detained outside Indonesia's presidential palace for demonstrating without a permit.
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Seattle
The William H. Gates Foundation and the Gates Learning Foundation are to merge into a single organisation called the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to support global health and learning programmes...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Jonathan Weiner highlighted the risks of banning the teaching of evolution in Kansas schools. David J. Tyler Principal lecturer Department of clothing, design and technology...
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Cutting Edge
Fossilised arthropod trackways provide 'palaeo-Polaroids', or snapshots, of the lives of earth's earliest living creatures. Behind the hype and the incredible claims from the "Jurassic Park...
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A measure of scalpel skills
Surgeon Ara Darzi is developing ways to test the dexterity of his theatre peers. Geoff Watts reports. Step aboard a commercial airliner and you can be certain that the skills of the pilot flying it...
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Spacecraft is to study explosions in space
British scientists hope to solve the mystery of gamma bursts soon, writes Alison Goddard. When a burst of gamma rays was detected in the sky in 1967, scientists at the Los Alamos laboratory thought...
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Comments sought as a boost to confidence
Researchers were asked this week to comment on the criteria and working methods for the next research assessment exercise, due for 2001. "There has never been a consultation at this stage before. I...
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RAE puts goodbooks on the back burner
Russell Jones's (above) PhD thesis was shortlisted for a major national prize but his supervisor's prediction that it was unpublishable proved frustratingly accurate. "None of the journals would take...
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Accused students claim they 'cooperated' not collaborated
Edinburgh University Students' Association has called for a full review of what constitutes plagiarism following university action against 117 students found guilty of "unacceptable collaboration"....
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Older students vote with feet
Mature students are turning away from full-time higher education, according to figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service out this week. Six days after the clearing process started...
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Parma
The University of Parma's science faculty is offering Italy's first postgraduate diploma in detection. The two-year forensic science qualification, popularly referred to as "the Sherlock Holmes...
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A-level benefits questioned
A study of students with different kinds of qualifications entering higher education casts doubt on the assumption that A levels are the "gold standard". Sarah Wilkinson, an education researcher at...
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Weeds invade GM row
English Nature this week expressed "deep concern" that large-scale farming in the United Kingdom of genetically modified crops resistant to herbicide could create weeds that cannot be killed. The...
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Critics admit teaching watchdog has teeth, but want to see its bite
The government has confounded critics who feared the new General Teaching Council would be little more than a government lapdog by confirming the body's independent status. The Department for...