China looks to the 21st century
The Chinese Academy of Sciences, the country's top scientific body, is to tweak its research strategy to focus more directly on economic development under its next Five Year Plan (1996-2000). The...
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Door of opportunity further ajar in Japan
A sharp drop in Japan's teenage population is making it easier for students to win places at the country's top universities and colleges. With fewer students sitting the entrance exams which...
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'Unpaid' lecturers claim exploitation
Postgraduate students in Australia are suffering widespread exploitation, with some working up to 20 hours a week as unpaid lecturers or demonstrators, unions representing academics and students have...
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Intellectual impasse
Now the clamour of the "battle with the CBI on intellectual rights" (THES, March 17 and letters March 24) has subsided, it is time for a cool look at the underlying issues. The unfortunate tone of...
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Churchill and the King
In Vernon Bogdanov's review of my book Eminent Churchillians (THES, March 3) he states that I "say nothing to illustrate that the King did not give Churchill his full support" after December 1940....
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Neural path is a grey matter
D. W. Salt's response (THES, March 17) to my article on consciousness (THES, March 3) misses several of the points I tried to make. I never used the epithet "epiphenomenal" for consciousness. Indeed...
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Fair pay should be on display
I read with interest your league table of vice chancellors salaries but was rather puzzled as to why you did not publish the precise information for Oxford Brookes vice chancellor, Clive Booth. For...
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Fair pay should be on display
The stark facts about how lecturers' pay increases have lagged behind those of school teachers and other groups since 1979 (THES, March 31) apply no less to academic staff in the new universities and...
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You can pun but you can't hide
In a survey of recent issues of New Scientist, 64 British universities advertised in the appointments pages, of which 36 (56 per cent) always included a statement about equal opportunities. (The...
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Bucked trend fizzes up
Speakers at a combined Royal Society/British Academy conference this week were fizzing with excitement. The conference was the Evolution of Social Behaviour Patterns in Primates and Man - and the...
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No more fool's gold
The National Union of Students' decision to review its battle cry for a return of historical grant levels can be seen as its own Clause Four debate. As in the Labour Party's modernising review, it is...
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Deakin student quits after victimisation claim
A 34-year-old Englishman who made national headlines in Australia last year after threatening to take Deakin University to the Trade Practices Commission for misleading advertising, has quit his...
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Ingenuity can conquer all in the new Russia
Russian universities are embracing the opportunities offered by the country's market reforms and new freedoms to link with higher education in the rest of the world. The country's changing structures...
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Liberation's front
As world leaders try to breathe fresh impetus into the stalled Palestinian peace process, the new state is striving for economic regeneration and a return to social and political stability. The Oslo...
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Protesting Australian university students
(Photograph) - Better deal: An end to postgraduate fees was one demand made by thousands of protesting Australian university students in national demonstrations last month. They also demanded a...