Muslims discard scarf
Student officers are concerned about the absence of women in traditional Muslim dress on university campuses. Kathryn Edwards, communications officer at Leeds University, said the shift was of great...
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International students may stay away in wake of atrocities
Universities are waiting to see whether the numbers of international students turning up will be lower than expected in the wake of the September 11 atrocities, writes Cherry Canovan. At London...
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Institute with designs on how we live
The home of the Interaction Design Institute of Ivrea is an appropriate one, in the traditional cradle of Italy's most enlightened industrial design. It was in Ivrea, a small town north of Turin,...
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Go public or perish
Philip Fine looks at how academics can get politicians' attention to influence policy Kevin Gorey knows that ever since Hillary Clinton failed to get universal healthcare for the country her husband...
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Findings
Smoking may blow away blues Tobacco smoke may act on the brain like an antidepressant drug, scientists have found. The results of a three-year study may provide another clue as to why kicking the...
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Germany creates IT research superpower
Europe's largest research body has £160m a year, 2,000 staff and big ambitions. Jennie Brookman writes Germany has created Europe's largest research body for information and communication technology...
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Whistleblowers
Plea to save research The chair of Parliament's all-party cancer group, Ian Gibson, has called for urgent talks with University College London, following The THES 's report last month that world-...
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Analysis: Science and the family don't mix
Statistics show an alarming number of female scientists remain single and childless. "Are we being irresponsible in encouraging girls and women to enter science?" This was a question posed at a...
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Don's Diary
Week One I sit in a Soho post-production studio playing through the edited version of "Look Out Haskell, It's Real!" The Making of Medium Cool, my film about Haskell Wexler's 1969 feature Medium Cool...
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A late substitution
The scheduling of last month's Spurs versus Man. United match proved rather irksome to senior figures at the London School of Economics, who were due to attend an away weekend in Kent. The previous...
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Hodge meets her match
Despite being carefully hand-picked by the University of Cambridge, the theology students who met higher education minister Margaret Hodge this week were not pulling any punches. After the minister...
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Graduates cost
A delegate at this week's Conservative Party conference made an interesting economic point about the merits of employing British graduates. Universities UK had organised a fringe meeting where the...
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On the move
Gill Tucker , of the University of East London, has been appointed vice-principal of Napier University. Recent appointments at the University of Leeds include: Louise Ackers , formerly of the...
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Glittering prizes
The Institution of Chemical Engineers has presented the Brennan Medal to Frank Crawley , of the University of Strathclyde, for his book on best practice for the process and chemical industries. Mike...
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In the news: Paul Nurse
On Tuesday, Sir Paul Nurse received the phone call that all scientists dream of. The 52-year-old pioneer of cell biology had won the Nobel prize for medicine. It is deserved recognition for the man...