Fire in the provinces
Toulouse, Metz, Aix-en-Provence, Marne-la-Vallee - this week strikes have been, to use Le Figaro's word, cascading through the French universities. So far agitation has been mainly in the provinces...
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Canadian bounty
(Photograph) - Canadian bounty: Michael G. Gibbons, dean of the graduate school and director of the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex, has been named as the new secretary...
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Head start
(Photograph) - Head start: Magnetic Resonance Imaging, honed over the last decade so that it can produce a "movie" of the body's soft tissues, may be the key to understanding migraine, Laurie Hall,...
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College standards satisfy inspector
Despite an 11 per cent efficiency gain and 5 per cent growth over the last year, standards of teaching in further education colleges have been judged satisfactory by their chief inspector whose...
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Greenwich bids for Naval site
The University of Greenwich launched its bid this week for the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, saying that its cost savings on other sites would pay for work on the college. The university would...
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Poetry in motion
Lucy Hodges meets Paul Muldoon, the Heaney acolyte who wants to rearrange furniture in our heads. Paul Muldoon looked a bit the worse for wear. He was on a poetry-reading tour of the United Kingdom,...
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Creature discomforts
Theologian Andrew Linzey believes that Christians have got it terribly wrong about animals for the past 2,000 years. Aisling Irwin hears his arguments. God might have saved his creatures a lot of...
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Giant eyes on the final frontier
Britain's part in funding the huge telescopes capable of viewing the surfaces of stars boosts our scientific prestige, argues John Meaburn The Hubble Space Telescope is arguably the most ambitious...
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Maritime great who sank without trace
Anton Gill sketches the life of William Dampier, an explorer to rank with Raleigh and Drake but also a privateer and pirate who died in obscurity. William Dampier figures in a footnote of a book...
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Happy with the reign in Spain
It is 20 years next week since Franco gasped his last and relinquished his hold on Spain. But although his democratic successors have been accused of corruption, Huw Richards finds little desire in...
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Trust me, they owe it to us
Trust has become the buzzword of the decade, and with good reason. Sometimes it feels as if you cannot trust anyone. You cannot trust the streets to be safe, cannot trust your employer not to lay you...
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Saddle up and sing out
Having been on a sabbatical from teaching (1994/95) in favour of research and writing, I thought that, after 15 months away, I would be longing to return to the classroom. And yet, as summer vacation...
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Don's Diary
Sunday. Early arrival in Johannesburg on a packed BA plane. Met by a University of South Africa (UNISA) staff member from the Research Institute for theology and religion where I am to speak later in...
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We'll never stand alone
Mike Nellis's proposal for a criminology-driven "stand alone" probation diploma is fatally flawed. The status and quality of university criminology teaching is quite as variable as social work...
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We'll never stand alone
In his article on probation training (THES, November 3) Mike Nellis is correct to assert that probation training should remain within higher education. However, his view that the arguments against...