Florence produces vintage with university seal
Food technology students and their professors at Florence University's faculty of agriculture are producing the first wine in Italy to bear an official university label, and they plan to do the same...
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US students in Kosovo jailed by Serb officials
Four United States students who travelled to Kosovo in solidarity with Albanian-speaking students in the troubled Serbian province have been jailed. The students - named as Daniel Perez, Teresa...
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Show of support: Serbian students in Pristina
(Photograph) - Show of support: Serbian students in Pristina make the three-fingers sign and display a portrait of Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadjici in a protest against a deal allowing Albanians...
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New cures for the doctors in trouble
People are staying healthier - and therefore living longer. As a result we need more doctors. Another 1,000 medical school entrants a year is proposed, an increase that would involve upping medical...
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Wizard way to fund Oz universities
ACCESS to education is perhaps the greatest key to equitable social mobility and the breakdown of the class division still evident in Britain. It is reasonable to ensure that those who benefit most...
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Morality play for our times
THE nannying tendencies of our times are becoming ever more apparent. Education and employment secretary David Blunkett has been pursing his lips over the naughty language in the Royal Court Theatre'...
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I was an evil drugs dealer
Universities must stop brushing the drugs issue under the carpet and start giving advice on minimising the harm associated with their use, argues Andrew Lockley I chose my university and course for...
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Computers as teachers would ease shortage
John Howson has some radical solutions for the decline in applications to teacher training TEACHER training faces a crisis. Applications for most courses are still below the levels of this time last...
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No facts...no surprise
Knowing nothing about BSE, I find that I have to rely on the expertise of microbiologists such as Professor Lacey. I am puzzled, however, by his article, "Science has failed to deliver the facts" (...
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Fuller figures
I was concerned to see our institution named as one of the bottom five ("Best and worst work wise", THES, March 20) and feel your graph was most misleading. Many of our graduates are in art and...
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Excellence unfunded
Your report (THES, March 20) indicating that "strong teaching institutions have come out on top in the Welsh funding allocations" requires some clarification. The last published data on teaching...
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Relative points
We were grateful to Jeremy Bernstein for his kind words about our book, Einstein's Mirror (THES, March 13), but we would like to correct a couple of points that he raised in his review. Both concern...
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Poor style counsel
The concern expressed by many tutors over "masculine" writing styles ("Thinking like a man is good for girls", THES, March 13) is not that their "originality" should be less valued, but rather that...
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Let market set the rate
Once again we have seen a derisory pay offer to academics and research staff within our universities. And once again we have heard the standard outdated rhetoric of the Association of University...
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Remains of history
I am writing following Cressida Fforde's article "Old bones of contention" (THES, March 13). The Natural History Museum has within its collections items from human remains, the majority of which are...