Telescope is focus of row
The projected site of the world's largest optical telescope has become the focus of an international dispute about diplomatic immunity. Ricardo Giacconi, director of the European Southern Observatory...
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Questions for quality
At the eleventh hour the universities have taken a stand. And they have taken it, as they should, on the grounds of quality control and autonomy. It has taken a long time. Views expressed with too...
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Rouen locks out students as protest
As France's presidential election draws near, the biggest public research institution, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique has won the promise of an 11th-hour hand-out, while, for the...
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Technikons take lion's share of funding
South African technikons emerged the biggest winners in education in this year's budget, which increased the total education allocation by just over 10 per cent to R32.2 million (Pounds 5.65million...
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Demotion of Jeffries is lawful
The controversial black academic, Leonard Jeffries, lost his first court case last week when a panel of appeals judges ruled that he was lawfully demoted by City College of New York for making...
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Australian men `failing to defend gender order'
Australian women are making spectacular advances in higher education and should no longer be considered disadvantaged, according to researchers at Monash University. In fact, they say, it is...
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Sportswomen subjected to discrimination
Pressure on American universities and colleges to give women students the same athletic opportunities as men increased last month when a federal judge ruled that the Ivy League Brown University had...
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Data bank with blind spots
The third set of education indicators to be published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has grown yet again to meet what it calls "the increasing desire among OECD...
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How to nurture a nest egg
THES reporters unravel the tangle of pension options facing staff three years after the reorganisation of higher education and examine the barriers to a unified system. In the university business...
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2001: a Hubble odyssey
THES reporters unravel the tangle of pension options facing staff three years after the reorganisation of higher education and examine the barriers to a unified system. Ancient tape-recorders that...
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Branded as fashion victims
If shop assistants suddenly start to ask you why you are buying a particular product, how it defines your identity and what life would be like without it - beware: they may be sociologists. For ten...
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Opt-out hordes trickle back
THES reporters unravel the tangle of pension options facing staff three years after the reorganisation of higher education and examine the barriers to a unified system. Pension experts from lecturers...
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The binary line that divides the old and new
THES reporters unravel the tangle of pension options facing staff three years after the reorganisation of higher education and examine the barriers to a unified system. Although it is three years...
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Teenagers feel need to steal for a game
Twenty-five per cent of teenagers would be prepared to steal a computer game if they could not afford it, according to a study to be presented at the BSA conference. Just over a quarter of the...
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Leaves hold key to solar energy
Glasgow University scientists have made a dramatic breakthrough in the understanding of photosynthesis which could open up the way for new ways of harnessing solar power. Neil Isaacs of Glasgow's...