The ties still bind
The 1989 Children Act stressed that divorced couples could not dissolve their parental duties as easily as their wedding vows. But Carol Smart finds families are failing to make cooperative parenting...
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A work of art that's brutal to work in
Cambridge's Judge Institute has a shiny new building, but what is it like to work in?Kate Worsley finds out from lecturer Jane Collier Academics struggling along in substandard accommodation may envy...
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Down the drain
Water is an ever more precious resource, but experts do not believe that water shortages will spark a war in the future. Jennie Bristow reports Will the next world war be fought over water? It may...
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When making things simple does not always give the right answer
Reductionism holds that even the most complicated processes can be explained in simple scientific terms. Steven Rose begs to differ Reductionism is a portmanteau word; its multiple meanings generate...
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What should those MSPs do?
On Thursday some four milion people will vote for or against the setting up of a Scottish parliament. It is likely the vote will be successful, so what happens next, asks Lindsay Paterson The debate...
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Scottish devolution: the essential facts
The Government's white paper, Scotland's Parliament, proposes the biggest reshaping of the United Kingdom's constitution since the partition of Ireland in 1922. Next Thursday the electors of Scotland...
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Listing is for research degrees and jobs
The following listing is for research degrees and jobs. Where possible a central contact person or office contact point has been given. Where there are several contact people they have been listed...
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The truth will out
Misprint or Freudian slip? A sharp-eyed reader draws our attention to the passage in the annual report of a northern university which explains that the institution had had its staff:student ratio...
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Appreciative audiences turn on sex-show women
Sex performers 'enjoy' their own shows WOMEN who perform in illegal live sex shows may get a sexual buzz from their work, according to new research. Bill Thompson, a criminologist at Reading...
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On a roll
(Photograph) - Ugo de Maio of Southampton University has helped design a gas turbine engine in three weeks. Students from all over Europe have been taking part in the Eurovia European Engine Design...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 revealed that: * Unemployment is the first destination of 5 per cent of those qualifying at postgraduate level * Unemployment is the...
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No talking
(Photograph) - No talking: The Cambridge Mummers drama group finds reputation means little in the cut-throat world of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Full story, page 19
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Warwick is five-star for computer science
LAST week's edition of The THES omitted Warwick University from the list of universities that achieved a five-star rating incomputer science in the research assessment exercise. Heriot-Watt...
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Vocational courses lose candidates
FEWER than half of advanced GNVQ exam candidates completed the course this year, the Joint Council of National Awarding Bodies announced this week. The completion-rate for the "vocational A-level"...
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Literary types equipped for life
In the third of our series on degrees we look at what students can expect from ancient and modern subjects THEY MAY be more career-minded these days but students have never lost their love of...