The Liberal Democrats have called for the further and higher education funding councils to be stripped of their powers. They plan to go into the next general election arguing that in England and...
Delegates at the Tenth World Congress on Psychiatry in Madrid this week learned of the schizophrenia Nobel laureate John Nash of MIT suffered for 15 years. While denying a direct relationship between...
The Medical Research Council was criticised this week for accepting money from the tobacco giant British American Tobacco. BAT has given Pounds 147,000 to the MRC to research whether nicotine is...
Perestroika and the end of the Cold w/ar brought little comfort to Russia's regional universities where a bias towards the military-industrial complex had always ensured comfortable sinecures for...
Two recent reviews (THES, July 26 and August 2) contribute illuminatingly to the vital debate on a single currency. However, they both describe negatively those who oppose a single currency as prone...
The feel-good factor hasn't returned, so we are told, because job insecurity is still widespread. But Ray Pahl, continuing our series on work and the family, believes it is also because our fractured...
A gene that protects mice from their equivalent of HIV infection has been discovered by British scientists. The discovery has raised the tantalising possibility of a similar gene being present in...
The research assessment exercise has "disempowered" 60 per cent of researchers and led to a damaging split between research and teaching, according to a study to be presented at an international...
The THES Internet Service, Thesis, is to provide the Internet presence for Sir Ron Dearing's National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education. From mid-September, users will be able to find out...
Fine art conservation skills are in urgent need of care and attention. "Something that worked perfectly well is being brought to its knees," warns Caroline Villers of the department of conservation...
Canada's 58 English-language scholarly presses are printing about 10 per cent fewer books than last year because of the squeeze on public subsidies. Author and political analyst Jeremy Webber says...
Hopefully no one from the international postal commission will have spotted that Derek Quintock managed to send a postcard from Malaysia (THES, August 9) using a stamp from Sri Lanka. Was the irony...
It is absurd to assign rights to animals, argues Roger Scruton in response to the 'moral humbug' of his critics. Recent correspondence prompts me to add to the argument of my article about why the...
Many natural history collections, especially in the tropics, will soon be lost forever unless money is made available for developing countries to preserve them. Richard Leakey, wildlife biologist and...
Proposed changes to Australia's Higher Education Contribution Scheme could be blocked if opposition parties decide to use their majority in the senate. The Labor Party, the Australian Democrats and...