The THES Diary
Poor quality abuse The Association of University Teachers Scotland decided to make a high-profile splash in the new devolved Scotland with a full-colour advertisement in one of the Scottish papers....
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Female follies
Leonard Shlain's argument about goddess worship ("Writing on the wall for goddesses" (THES, May 7) makes sense if these assumptions are true: * there are such things as "male" and "female" values *...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Andrew Oswald argued that British academics would be paid market-led salaries within the next decade, with science professors earning twice as much as art or music professors...
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Agony aunt
Q) I am supervising a student whom I strongly suspect is suffering from mental health problems. I have no experience of this and want to know what is the best way to help her. Colin Lago Sheffield...
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In the news
In the 1960s, David Triesman was making rousing speeches to students about communism and the iniquities of chemical weapons. Today, his audiences are lecturers and his principal subject pay. But his...
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Climbing Mount Unenviable
The presidency of a French university carries few rewards. Ivar Ekeland writes to a prospective candidate My dear X, LESS THAN The president of our university is nearing the end of his term and you...
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World watch
The Chinese government has declared protests by students who attacked the US and British embassies in Beijing a justified and legal reaction to Nato action in the Balkans. Windows were smashed and...
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World watch
Henri Konan Bedie, president of Cote d'Ivoire accused opposition parties of being behind two weeks of intermittent clashes between police and university students to discredit his government in the...
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World watch
Sacked prime minister Yevgeni Primakov is likely to return to his old post at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Mr Primakov, a 69-year-old Middle East expert and former Soviet-era KGB chief, planned...
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World watch
A Scots Labour and an English Conservative MEP have each written to Romano Prodi, president-designate of the European commission, urging him to intervene in Italy's long-running dispute over foreign-...
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World watch
The Tatung Institute of Technology in Taiwan named a former computer engineering student as author of the Chernobyl (CIH) virus which caused many computers around the world to fail last month. The...
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Eye witness
For centuries the Danube has been a vital international trade artery through Central and Eastern Europe, interrupted only by the second world war. But its bridges have been a consistent target of...
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Call to ration doctors
Italian doctors have to wait an average of ten years before they find stable employment in the public or private health services because there is a massive surplus of medical school graduates,...
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Indians buy bonds for study overseas
The clamour for a foreign university degree has triggered a boom in education bonds to enable Indian parents to send their children overseas. After a "lock-in period" of 15 to 20 years, the bonds...
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Naked wrestlers defend modesty
Photographs of clothed female university cheerleaders and naked male wrestlers taken without their consent for sale as pornography have several major American universities looking for someone to sue...