Star turn
Fashion industry wannabes give up the summer sun for a crash course with a professional designer, writes Jennifer Currie. Summer and school may be the last two words you would expect to hear an...
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Are we missing the mark?
Percentages? Grades? A mixture of the two? Paul Bridges wonders, is our marking system really fair? Is our marking fair? We would like to think so. We devote care to the design of assessments in...
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Helpline proves unhelpful
The 750,000 potential students who have called the government's Learning Direct telephone helpline have been given "out of date or incomplete" information, college leaders have warned. As little as a...
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Serb anger at UN's 'passivity'
The international community has failed to prevent Serbian academics and students from being "driven out of their homes and expelled from Kosovo", Jagos Zelenovic, rector of the Belgrade-backed Serb-...
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Visitor is unwelcome in law
The ancient visitor method of settling disputes between universities and students is in breach of Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, an academic lawyer has warned. Tim Birtwistle...
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High Court finally halts internet trade in fake degrees
An entrepreneur selling fake degree certificates on the internet has been hit with a High Court injunction, over two years after The THES exposed the controversial business, writes Phil Baty. The...
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Sources for research funding
Each week this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk Funding listings are compiled by Sarah Knowles 0171 782 3225 Email:...
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Flower power
(Photograph) - Flower power: Colin Peters, farm manager at the Institute of Arable Crops Research site in Rothemstead, Hertfordshire, surveys a genetically modified crop. Photograph by GEOOFF...
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Osh
Archaeologists excavating what has been tentatively identified as the site of ancient Osh in Kyrgyzstan reported dateable fragments of pottery. Osh will celebrate its 3,000th anniversary in 2001 with...
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Djakarta
Nine anti-government students were detained outside Indonesia's presidential palace for demonstrating without a permit.
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Seattle
The William H. Gates Foundation and the Gates Learning Foundation are to merge into a single organisation called the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to support global health and learning programmes...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Jonathan Weiner highlighted the risks of banning the teaching of evolution in Kansas schools. David J. Tyler Principal lecturer Department of clothing, design and technology...
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Cutting Edge
Fossilised arthropod trackways provide 'palaeo-Polaroids', or snapshots, of the lives of earth's earliest living creatures. Behind the hype and the incredible claims from the "Jurassic Park...
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A measure of scalpel skills
Surgeon Ara Darzi is developing ways to test the dexterity of his theatre peers. Geoff Watts reports. Step aboard a commercial airliner and you can be certain that the skills of the pilot flying it...
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Spacecraft is to study explosions in space
British scientists hope to solve the mystery of gamma bursts soon, writes Alison Goddard. When a burst of gamma rays was detected in the sky in 1967, scientists at the Los Alamos laboratory thought...