When Shabbir Akhtar published his doubts about Islam in The THES, fellow Muslims reacted with sympathy and sadness. Yet he remains convinced that Islam would benefit from a battle between free-...
Ian Wilmut was happy to clone Dolly the sheep but he is appalled by the prospect of cloning humans. Justine Burley reports on his Amnesty lecture Ian Wilmut, whose team at the Roslin Institute in...
Paris Strikes and street protests across France by students and professors at university technical institutes were headed off last week by education and research minister Claude All gre after round-...
Durban THE END of apartheid opened the doors of Africa's biggest economy to foreign influence and to a greater flow of the development aid South Africa sorely needs. Higher education, a strong but...
LES ALLEN 'Throw out the panels, throw out the referees and have a lottery for all the funds' My experience with the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council suggests that the concerns about...
(Photograph) - Mini-watch: Thai students brazen out Chulalongkorn University's ban on miniskirts for which they face marks deducted from their good behaviour record
ROYAL SOCIETY `Like democracy, peer review is the least corruptible approach that we have' The main job of peer review is to select the best research, the best papers and the best research workers on...
MARK GRIFFITHS 'I'm afraid this paper reminds me of the sausages I had in England 35 years ago... ' I have taken a backseat interest in the peer review system for many years, wondering whether it is...
The higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: Of first-degree language graduates who went to work: * 28 per cent went into clerical and secretarial occupations * 24.2 per...
Students are holding their own multinational talks on the future of Northern Ireland in Belfast Students were meeting in Belfast today to debate the political future of Northern Ireland. They...
Students are holding their own multinational talks on the future of Northern Ireland in Belfast Shane Whelehan is a fine art graduate of Ulster University, now holding the sabbatical post of vice...
Oxford is in trouble; UMIST is in trouble. The THES investigates the price of private finance Fundraising, once the domain of Oxford, Cambridge and a few other elite institutions, is now a growth...
Gender research reveals surprising attitudes to women a work Research has revealed a "Helena Kennedy/Cherie Blair phenomenon" of support for successful women. The study, by Fiona Wilson of St Andrews...
Gender research reveals surprising attitudes to women a work Working-class women are being profoundly affected by the stream of negative images of themselves in the media, according to new research...
Students are holding their own multinational talks on the future of Northern Ireland in Belfast Northern Ireland's universities and colleges are proud of their record in largely keeping sectarianism...