The art of constructing scientific stereotypes
Artists helped create the notion of a human hierarchy based on facial characteristics, argues David Bindman Race emerged as a scientific concept in the late 18th century, and continued throughout the...
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Putting on a brave face
Native American identity is constantly shifting and redefining itself to survive the challenges of different ages, says Jonathan King In a 1996 American movie Mars Attacks!, Martians are portrayed as...
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Cleansing ethnicity from the conflict
Concentrating on ethnicity as the driving force in recent Balkan history distorts the picture, says Nergis Canefe History is not a science. According to the etymological roots of the word, it is the...
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World Watch
A Moscow State University student taking a lunchtime walk through the campus park died when an unknown attacker slashed her throat with a knife. Zukhra Saitova, a 19-year-old third-year philosophy...
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Queen's Birthday Honours
LIFE PEERS Sir Ronald Oxburgh, KBE, rector, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine; Vivien Stern, secretary general, Penal Reform International. KNIGHTS William Adsetts, OBE, chair of...
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The College of Law
The College of Law has launched its own student loan scheme in collaboration with NatWest bank. Under a special deal, students can take out loans currently fixed at 6.25 per cent or variable loans at...
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Informed waiting
(Photograph) - Nick Bower, a student at Sheffield Hallam University, who during a placement at South Yorkshire Passenger Transport helped develop QUEST, a bus location system. People waiting at bus...
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World Watch
The privately funded Islamic University of Rotterdam will more than double its student intake this autumn. Up to 100 new students are expected to be admitted to study Islam and the Koran. The...
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Which country is tops in tropical medicine?
Citations for the trend spotters Normally, analysis of citations in individual subfields is more useful for policy formation than is an examination of all of biomedicine. Papers in a subfield such as...
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Grants lobby refuses to die
Phil Baty looks at academics' response to a THES poll on how Labour policies are faring Academics have overwhelmingly rejected the government's decision to scrap student grants, warning that hardship...
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Catholic landstop Ulster job
A Catholic has been appointed vice-chancellor of one of Northern Ireland's universities for the first time. Gerry McKenna (above), 45, currently UU's pro vice-chancellor for research, beat off...
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Citations for the trend spotters
The Unesco conference will note the growing strength of Asian biomedical science. Grant Lewison reports The practice of counting the numbers of scientific papers produced by a country has become a...
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Mission to Pristina
The weight of responsibility resting on her shoulders is immense. But at 28, Monica Llamazares is determined and only a little daunted by the task ahead. In less than a fortnight, she will land in...
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Labour's Euro loss sees dons triumph
The Labour Party is reeling after last week's European Parliament elections - but parties started by, run by or starring academics were the big winners. The two parties to have gained most from the...
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Most students ignorant of costs
Students are ill-informed about the costs of higher education, a national survey has found. Most think costs arising from taking an undergraduate course range from Pounds 2,000-Pounds 5,000 a year,...