Law students in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk are gaining practical experience and helping the poor in the country's first free legal aid scheme. Members of the Youth Centre for Legal Studies, an...
(Photograph) - Walking the dog: students from a Student Community Action Project at the University of Plymouth walk dogs for elderly people, those who are housebound and people who go to work. The...
Tim Greenhalgh meets the Norwegian who redefined style on the world wide web, and Tony Durham sums up a year of successes and setbacks for the web's energetic standard setters Show two people a web...
Users of new technologies, rather than visionary glibness, will define the cultural results of information technology, Jon Agar argues Flagship technologies always repay close reading: they tell us...
The University for Industry will be delivered in Wales by a bilingual distance learning network specifically tailored to Welsh needs, according to Eurfron Gwynne Jones, chair of Digital College Wales...
Tim Greenhalgh meets the Norwegian who redefined style on the world wide web, and Tony Durham sums up a year of successes and setbacks for the web's energetic standard setters The web is a global...
It is unfortunate that the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service's processing of student applications for 1999 has been delayed by a move to larger premises. This is the first year in which no...
Scientists hope their visit to No 10 has whetted ministers' appetites for fresh policies. Olivea Judson reports The day before the air strikes began against Iraq, prime minister Tony Blair found...
Scientists around the world are feeling optimistic. They have new money and - as our supplement (pages 21-28) on the American Association for the Advancement of Science shows - new challenges to...
We were saddened and angered by the emotive and ill-informed attacks on nursing, nursing shortages and higher education ("V-cs defend nurse training", THES, January 15). We are surprised that...
If Bill Thompson ("Why I plan to carry on smoking", THES, January 8) really does his thinking with his motor neurones, I'm not surprised he is patron of an organisation as stupid as Forest. John...
Earlier this month in The THES.. Marie Denley argued that women should have made the shortlist for the Today programme's Person of the Millennium competition. The exclusion of women from the Today...
Who is more aged, a 90-year-old or a 100-year-old? And, yes, it is a trick question. The answer, according to Michael Rose of the University of California, Irvine, is neither. The 100-year-old may be...
Tim Cornwell finds that in its 150 years, the association has not only not kept out of politics but has sometimes invited it in. One hundred and fifty years ago last year, the American Association...
Calorie-restricteddiets could be the secret to a longer life. Ayala Ochert,reporting on the latest research, finds out that less really is more. At long last, the secret to a long life is out - but...