Cash controversy
Students have condemned Cambridge University's decision to accept a Pounds 1.5 million donation from tobacco company BAT Industries. In a ballot of 1,711 academics, 1,128 voted in favour of accepting...
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Have cash, but can't spend it
Universities could be heaping up a multi-million pound "cash mountain" because funding regulations put them off spending the money, a leading vice chancellor warned this week. Big financial reserves...
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Head to head
(Photograph) - Head to head: Russell Bates, a student at Exeter University, admires the Henry Moore sculpture, "Reclining Collected Forms", which has gone on show at the university. The work, created...
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Students ponder Euro appeal
A group of students and former students expelled from their union by London's South Bank University are deciding whether to fight the institution in the European Court. Four students are considering...
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Genes means coming clean
If you want a quiet life, do not do research into the genetics of behaviour. If you do, be prepared to participate in the noisy life that will follow. The same rule applies to the funders of such...
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For all creatures great and small
As Roger Scruton argues that animals are "insensible", I cannot comprehend his statement that hounds and horses also experience "pleasure" in tearing a fox to pieces. Or is Professor Scruton...
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Chipping away at the glass ceiling
As a book and university league table today reveal the extent of discrimination against women academics, we focus on two new professors and their fight for recognition - Gillian Morriss-Kay (below...
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Internet news
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features, reviews and advertisements in the newspaper, plus a full list of institutions in British further and higher...
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Pay-by-results looms in autumn
The Government is poised to press for the introduction of payment by results in higher education. Primary legislation is expected in the autumn which will pave the way for a link between student...
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Post script
We apologise to thes subscribers whose copies are delayed by this week's planned one-day postal strike, which, as we went to press, was due to take place today.
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Cot death link to smoking
Smoking may cause up to 60 per cent of cot deaths, scientists have revealed, writes Aisling Irwin. Babies whose parents both smoke heavily during and after the pregnancy are four times more likely to...
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Threads bared
(Photograph) - Threads bared: Peter Bowcott with his Lines and Curves IV at Nottingham Trent's first arts festival.
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Overseas boom
The number of overseas students at British universities and colleges increased by 42 per cent from 1993/94 to 1994/95, according to figures released by the British Council this week. In 1994 Britain...
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Southampton review
Southampton Institute has launched an internal communications review, following votes of no confidence from staff headed by Geoffrey Hall, a nuclear technologist and former founding director of...
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Professors' natural habitat is still old universities
The overwhelming majority of professors are still in old universities according to figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency. The report, compiled by HESA to coincide with this week's...