Glitches in time
The millennium is a figment of the calendar - a human device which seeks to impose order on an essentially chaotic universe. Stephen Jay Gould ponders the history of time A few diehards, instead of...
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A papal plea for harmony
The Pope says it is time for Catholics to atone for their past sins, particularly 2,000 years of anti-Semitism. Paul Bompard reports Late last month, almost 400 academics and theologians gathered in...
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Guide to the moral maze
Sheila McLean tells Kate Worsley about her pioneering work on medical ethics and the law Glasgow is not famed for its warm weather, so when a nice day comes along the city seems to bask in it. Not...
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Kroto labels Blackstone worse than Tories
Tessa Blackstone outlines her vision of a transformed higher education system, Nobel prizewinner Sir Harry Kroto says that she is totally wrong about science. Science, including engineering and...
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Open all hours for the masses
Tessa Blackstone outlines her vision of a transformed higher education system Slowly, but relentlessly, the predominant view of education as the preparation of young people for adult life is being...
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The truth is out there, and so is Dr Radin
Was fear of the unknown behind the departure of a University of Nevada researcher probing psychic phenomena? Tim Cornwell investigates Cries of protest are making themselves heard at the University...
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Teaching: broader horizons
Cath Cotton talks to academics about breaking down barriers in the brave world of interdisciplinarity Anthropology at Roehampton Institute London: interdisciplinary teaching across social and natural...
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Mission drift in sub-degree sea
New universities fight their corner against FE A LOBBY group for the 1992 universities has slammed Dearing's call for more sub-degree work in further education colleges. Responding to Sir Ron Dearing...
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Crossing the great divides
Cath Cotton talks to academics about breaking down barriers in the brave world of interdisciplinarity MOVES to break through traditional boundaries between disciplines can be threatening to some...
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Could these nightmares ever happen to you?
University of Armageddon Over-enthusiastic recruitment has swollen Armageddon's new intake. Administrative strategy last year was directed at slimming the salary bill to release funds for new...
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Factfile
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: * 70.6 per cent of academic staff in Wales are male * 69.8 per cent of academic staff in Scotland are male * 67.7 per cent...
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Headbangs and reality
OH DEAR, only in "the lower reaches of humanities and social sciences" would an argument that does not appeal to reason appeal. So says Ray Monk in his review of The Last Word by Thomas Nagel (THES,...
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Loan fund for research
THE disappearance of hundreds of university research posts (THES, October 3) that would inevitably follow an unfunded increase in the overhead on research council grants, underlines the need for care...
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Years of not being dead
CAN anyone tell me why the United Kingdom pay scales for research assistants are determined by age? Salary levels could be more fairly determined by length of relevant experience. Beyond the age of...
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Women locked in timewarp
SHABBIR Akhtar ("Ex-defender of the faith", THES, August 22) comes close to throwing the baby out with the bathwater. His article reads like one recanting, and one is left confused, wondering what...