Tough veg muscle in
GARDENERS plagued by wilting lettuces and off-colour tomato plants are to get a helping hand from scientists. A team from Lancaster University's biological sciences department has identified...
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Holy overlooked
The Ayatollahs in Iran, Bishop Tutu in South Africa, the Dalai Lama in Taiwan and Bishop Carols Belo in East Timor all have religion. But no one knows why. Religion has a persistent and continuing...
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Bugs stop athletes in their tracks
A Pounds 100,000 research project at Birmingham University could help to reduce the high incidence of infection among athletes specialising in sports such as long-distance running, cycling and...
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Jobless dominate poll
CANADA'S three national education groups are working hard to read the entrails of the federal election speeches and find some mention of higher education in a campaign dominated by national unity and...
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Court backs sacked lecturers who refused to go to work
A Nigerian court has backed university lecturers fired by the University of Nsukka for their refusal to comply with an ultimatum to return to work after a national strike. But the university...
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Harvard women in tenure protest
Fifteen senior women faculty at Harvard are protesting against the university's decision not to grant tenure to Bonnie Honig, a 37-year-old associate professor whom her colleagues described as a "...
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Doc of the year on murder rap
A CANADIAN doctor who was recently named professor of the year at Dalhousie Medical School has been charged with murder. Nancy Morrison, 41, was arrested this month at Halifax's Queen Elizabeth II...
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$2.9m fine shuts down Soros
The Soros Foundation in Belarus has suspended all operations following the impounding of its local bank accounts to pay a $2.9 million fine imposed by the tax authorities. Ostensibly, the fine is the...
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Radical aristocrat in a fight for freedom
In the thick of a violent struggle between police and student activists leading an illegal demonstration in Minsk, capital of Belarus, historian Luba Luynevoi looks an unlikely radical. A strikingly...
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Incestuous pollsters v. 'lazy' press
French poll findings can no longer be published before the final round of voting in France's legislative elections this Sunday, but the polling institutes' resident political scientists are still...
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Smarten up those baggy notions now
Perhaps it lacks the ring of Hartley Shawcross's infamous cry after Labour's 1945 landslide "We are the masters now", but "We are the regulators now" might do very well as the leitmotif for the 1997...
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Scholarly view transformed to legal tussle
THIS YEAR, for some academics, the relative quiet of the examination hall will be a prelude to more than the worry of mountainous stacks of scripts. It will prefigure society's other black-gown forum...
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Still breathing...
Are universities on their deathbeds? Ronald Barnett sees a flicker of life A recent paper raises the question: can we speak of the death of the university? That the end is nigh for the university may...
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Banking on change - the only safe investment
Professional bodies must lead rather than follow to stay relevant, says Gavin Shreeve PROFESSIONAL bodies in financial services which have as their remit the task of educating practitioners are...
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Natfhe facts file
IN EXAMINING unionisation of academics (THES, May 16) you should get the figures right and compare like with like. Within the total figure of 226,000 staff quoted in your article, new university and...