Science writers: facts and fiction
There are a number of factual errors in an article about me by Jon Turney that appeared on page 15 of the THES on May 10. 1. Turney states that three of this year's Rhone-Poulenc science book prize...
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Beauty is in the eye of a Greek chisel holder
Do we find certain people sexy because we have been unduly influenced by the anatomical preferences of a sculptor who has been dead for over 2,500 years? George Hersey looks at the enduring and...
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Taking the plunge
(Photograph) - Taking the plunge: modern societies are full of risks, many man-made. Mad cow disease, genetically modified organisms, fertility-threatening chemicals, polluted water, the list grows...
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Failed Lancaster college cast adrift
Lancaster University is to hive off its teacher training operation at Charlotte Mason College following a controversial Ofsted report that rated important areas of the college's work as...
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Shrewd stampings
Hard on the heels of Michael Heseltine advising British business to stay afloat by late payment of bills comes the audit division of the Higher Education Funding Council for England with its own...
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Oxford to study gender differences of degree
Academics at Oxford University are hoping to conduct Britain's first-ever systematic study of the differences between men and women's degree performance. The study, to be carried out by Margaret...
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Gravity map in space
Three-dimensional gravity maps that would allow planes and submarines to navigate in the next century could result from the first complete United Kingdom university experiment on a Nasa space shuttle...
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Rector gets ministry
If the new centre-left coalition in Italy lasts longer than recent governments it will fall to Luigi Berlinguer, 63, former rector of Siena University, to oversee in-depth reform of universities....
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Longer loans from Labour
Your anonymous author ("A Doctorate in McMarking?", Research Opportunities, May 17) illustrates a common view of what it is like to be a PhD student. However, for the majority, a PhD is a hugely...
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Soeur passing her limits
Stella Hughes talks to Helene Cixous, a feminist theorist who finds the label far too constricting to describe her numerous activities. The name of Helene Cixous means different things to different...
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'Genocide' row over Princeton job
Princeton University has become ensnared in the bitter enmity over the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey during the first world war. The prestigious private university, which celebrates its 250th...
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Scots funders shun English quality union
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has underlined its arm's-length approach to a single United Kingdom quality agency by vetoing the transfer of its quality assessment responsibilities to...
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Robins in the wing
Endsleigh Insurance's extension of its business from looking after students to sponsoring the Football League is clearly having an impact on terrace discourse. Overheard during last weekend's Crystal...
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Is there an A-level doctor in house?
The quest to predict which A-level students will make good doctors could be helped by the discovery of a link between how they study when they are 18 and their later clinical abilities, writes...
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Fillip for Clinton voluntary work
President Bill Clinton has scored a small victory in his long-running tug of war with the United States Congress over Americorps, his prized civilian national service programme. Evidence released...