Long and short of job contracts
Fixed-term contracts demoralise staff. A far better way to cope with an uncertain financial future is to have a high-quality satisfied workforce that is loyal to you. Only then are you able to...
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Letters in brief
Continuing professional development will indeed be supported by the University for Industry, along with the continuing learning needs of all adults ("Flexible accounts to pay for lifelong study",...
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Overseas adventures
Roger Brown gives ample proof that hindsight is a wonderful thing ("Scrutinise those overseas links", THES, January 1). His own standpoint is impregnable, too, since he was not at the helm of...
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Science - the only frontier
Former astronaut George 'Pinky' Nelson charts a cure forscience illiteracy in the US and beyond. While scientific knowledge is growing at a breathtaking pace, science literacy is not. In fact, there...
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Openness saves lives
On the eve of the Freedom of Information Bill, Iain McLean points out abuses of secrecy. When I was a lad writing a thesis on Red Clydeside, I remember writing to the minister responsible asking to...
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A first shot of hope
The breakthrough in the race to find an Aids vaccine could be at hand. David Baltimore, who oversees US efforts, will discuss provocative new findings in California this weekend. Tim Cornwell reports...
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Scientists fear NIH budget will hit research
After half a decade of dwindling budgets the US research community celebrated a giant jump in funding last year. Congress and the White House agreed 15 per cent more for the National Institutes of...
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A warm weather warning
Sherwood Rowland has seen his work on the dangers of aerosol sprays result in a worldwide ban. But, he tells Ayala Ochert, he fears it will take an environmental crisis before governments take action...
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Age-old battle continues with true believers
As researchers continue to seek traces of the biblical flood, Tim Cornwell reports on the stand-off between science and religion. In the early 19th century, the days before Charles Darwin and his...
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Readers reactions
Last week in The THESI Larry Bunt argued that the casualisation of the university workforce was a good thing. * Tom Wilson Head of universities at lecturers' union Natfhe. The proportion of academic...
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Protection squad
(Photograph) - Protection squad: Bangladeshi police escort women students protesting over alleged sexual abuse by lecturers at Dhaka University. The students claim that at least 12 cases of abuse...
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THES diary
Union man with a past An interesting name emerges on the list of nominees for members of the national executive committee at the Association of University Teachers, particularly in the light of...
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Montreal
A plan to divert a percentage of earnings from scratch-and-win lottery into the Universite de Quebec a Montreal has been dropped after student protests. The campus ticket sales booth operated for...
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Glitteing prizes
Lord Glenamara, 86, chancellor at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, has been given an honorary doctorate of civil law at the University of Newcastle. Gilbert Smith, vice-chancellor at...
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Baz Kershaw
Baz Kershaw, chair of the research assessment panel for dance, drama and the performing arts is professor of drama at the University of Bristol and not, as stated on page 8 of the January 1 issue, at...