Nuclear threat to volcano
A French vulcanologist has warned that more nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific could cause the collapse of a flank of the extinct underwater volcano, leading to a big release of...
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Farmers look ahead to see woods and trees
Welsh farmers are re-examining their use of land because agriculture profits are forecast to fall and returns from forestry expected to increase. To prevent Wales following Languedoc in Southern...
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Clubs say overseas player influx is just not cricket
Controversy over overseas players extends beyond first-class and test cricket to the club game, a new survey shows. Produced by Steve Greenfield and Guy Osborn, senior lecturers in law and organisers...
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Onwards and upwards
(Photograph) - Onwards and upwards: a week of celebrations to mark the London School of Economics's centenary were crowned on Wednesday with the news that the school's professor of international law...
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Croydon becomes a Sussex college
Croydon College has become a college of the University of Sussex in a move which reflects the blurring of traditionally rigid boundaries between further and higher education. Croydon, which offers...
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The not so magic mountain
David Walker reports on new criticism of Thomas Mann Here, in Britain, literary iconoclasm is a kind of sport, not quite as lucrative as amateur rugby but appealing, it seems, to many readers....
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A narrow gauge
Richard Pring disagrees with James Tooley's argument, set out in last week's THES, that school exams should be replaced by IQ tests The most surprising aspect of James Tooley's column in last week's...
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A woman of the world
John Davies meets Rosalyn Higgins, the first female judge appointed to the International Court of Justice in the Hague In a corridor in the London School of Economics law department last month there...
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Dons, divas and ruff types
A new exhibition at the Paris Opera has triggered a reappraisal of academe's relationship with the grandest of the performing arts. Stella Hughes reports The grand central staircase and the public...
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The great unwashed
In the latest in our occasional series, Martyn Kelly talks to Richard Lacey about the latter's first published research, the conclusions of which have become accepted clinical practice Professor...
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Free range thinking
John Webster believes we spend too much time talking about animal rights and too little minimising animal suffering. Aisling Irwin met him What kind of man can hold, simultaneously, the following two...
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Found wanting, needs judgement
The merging of the Universities Funding Council and the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council sectors of higher education meant that the funding of universities coming from varying starting...
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Don's Diary
SUNDAY. Lazy day. Swim as usual for last hour before sunset. Greet consultant who meets us on beach as we come out. He has arrived today, from British Open University, and has been working with us...
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Waiting for the Czech
A group of academics stands in line, like a Communist bread queue, to collect a monthly salary amounting to Pounds 100-Pounds 200. The money must be collected in cash on a particular day of the month...
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Record straight on QMW merger
Your report on the Queen Mary and Westfield College Bill (THES, July 7) contains two mistakes. First, this is not a Private Member's Bill: it is a Private Bill which is something completely different...