A model of life on the ocean wave
(Photograph) - A micro-organism that lives in oceans may have a dramatic effect on global warming, Aisling Irwin writes. Scientists at the Southampton Oceanography centre are modelling the micro-...
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Jet-X hitches Russian ride
An X-ray sensitive satellite developed by astronomers at Leicester University is intending to shed light on the darkest secrets of black holes. There are two types of black hole: small ones on the...
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Dynamic duo head south
(Photograph) - Alan Smithers and Pamela Robinson, the leading education and employment researchers, are moving their research centre from Manchester University's faculty of education to Brunel...
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Seventy per cent of FE lecturers on new contracts
College employers have released a survey contradicting reports that many institutions have settled the lecturers' contracts dispute by retaining old restrictive employment practices. Lecturers'...
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Bond break-up clash
Peter McGill reports from Tokyo on the controversial financial operations of Japanese politician Toshio Yamaguchi. Two troubled universities - one in the United States that was never built and...
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Phoenix needs help to rise
The image of Zubin Mehta directing Mozart's Requiem in the still warm ashes of the university library was one of the most powerful from besieged Sarajevo. The music was not only for the repose of the...
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Phoenix needs help to rise
* Edinburgh University and Edinburgh District Council have joined in a town and gown initiative to help combat the trauma suffered by children over the past four years, Olga Wojtas writes. Nigel...
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Thinkers weigh in on welfare reform
French intellectuals have weighed into the crisis over welfare reform in typical fashion, with one text supporting prime minister Alain Juppe and another declaration supporting the strikers. The...
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Siberian teachers vote for strike over poverty pay
University teachers in Siberia were due to strike today in what had been planned as Russia-wide protests against poverty-level wages and poor funding for state education. Professors and lecturers in...
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United by a sense of outrage
Universities are in serious decline. Many senior academics have recently used this, and the latest round of Government higher education spending cuts, to argue the case for top-up fees as a way out...
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Liability noose deters volunteers
Michael Shattock says Lord Nolan should examine whether governing bodies can cope with more laws and less cash, while John Hall (right) argues that governors face too much risk of financial liability...
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The Nolan roadshow
This week The THES is opening a debate on the issues being explored by Lord Nolan's committee on standards in public life. Apart from hearings in Edinburgh and Cardiff in the New Year, the committee...
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Canon lore for musicians
In attempts to define the literary canon, the oldest works usually cited are the Iliad and the Odyssey, both of which are about 3,000 years old. This means that people got on fine without them for...
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A king of hearts?
I am grateful to Max Beloff for his generous review of my book The Monarchy and the Constitution (THES, December 8). But I am surprised that he questions the statement that "Edward VII through his...
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United by a sense of outrage
The severity of the Chancellor's budget for higher education calls for a dramatic - but carefully planned - response. The sense of outrage expressed by speakers at last week's Committee of Vice...