A laser revolution out of the blue
Blue lasers, the holy grail of laser technology, could revolutionise information technology and compact disc technology, according to physicists and industrial re-searchers meeting at Heriot-Watt...
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In-school training limited
New school-centred initial teacher training schemes have made a "mixed start" and will need to improve to reach the same standard as existing higher education-based courses, inspectors said this week...
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Heavy paper weight
Overworked? Stressed? Burned out? Spare a thought, then, for the social worker disappearing under a mountain of paperwork. The profession's main training body has drawn attention to growing workloads...
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Internet News
The THES Internet Service includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper and all our advertisements, updated on the Tuesday before publication of the paper. The service is availableon the...
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MPs see red on college finances
The Public Accounts Committee said this week that it was concerned that colleges might be forced to borrow money to meet day-to-day running costs as a result of deficits totalling Pounds 20 million....
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Holy city sparks unholy row
An academic argument has blown up over a new study option at Exeter University to examine the role of Jerusalem in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Exeter's department of politics is to run the option as...
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Prof in lather about soap
Professor Baumann, a folklore studies tutor at Tubingen University, is in his local pub boozily talking over the theme of tomorrow morning's seminar with a colleague. He finally hits on it: "A...
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Real-life soap: Hermann Bausinger, professor at the Ludwig Uhland Institute in Germany
(Photograph) - Real-life soap: Hermann Bausinger, professor at the Ludwig Uhland Institute in Germany, has written to the makers of a German soap opera to complain that their fictional Professor...
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Mothering with a spot of infanticide
Aisling Irwin talks to Jane Goodall, the first zoologist to credit chimpanzees with personalities. The dramatic moment when chimpanzees were first spotted using tools: "Evered, as he climbed through...
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The worth of nations
Rob Brown reports on the career of Tom Nairn, the Scottish writer and academic who believes that resurgent nationalism does not need to be nasty Those who check the planet's pulse by tuning into TV...
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Water and troubled oil
Greenpeace may have won the political battle to stop Shell sinking its oil platform, Brent Spar, at sea but it has not won the scientific debate. Ragnar Lofstedt describes how the activists were able...
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0.85 seeks 0.7 for 2.4
What we all want in our perfect partner, says Devendra Singh, is an ideal waist-hip ratio. David Charter checks out his figures Devendra Singh has a high waist-hip ratio. He is living proof (thanks...
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Not quiet on the university front
Universities in August - a different world from the chalk and talk of term time. Those not familiar with higher education probably have an image of a large oak door firmly closed with a sign on it "...
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Quality and priority
I read with interest Ron Johnston's letter (THES, August 4) on the implications of the forthcoming Research Assessment Exercise for the funding of grade 5 departments. The Higher Education Funding...
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The relativity of theory
Mr Finney says that, far from being deleterious to academic freedom, critical theory is "about opening spaces for those who have been marginalised or disenfranchised by traditional approaches and...