Age of genetic utopia
In perhaps the most jubilant message of national science week geneticist Steve Jones has announced that we are living in a utopia - of a genetic kind. "The great engine of evolutionary progress has...
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OECD predicts soaring participation rates
Universities in the industrialised world face further financial pressure as rapid student growth and government underfunding continue, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and...
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Campus links urged
William Hague, secretary of state for Wales, has urged businesses to network with universities to improve their competitiveness. Launching the Innovation Network at the University of Wales, Cardiff,...
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Ruttgers's shadow boxes dirty with his own party
The German Social Democrats' parliamentary education spokesman faces resignation calls from his party for threatening to break with the party line on student fees. Peter Glotz is set to publish a...
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Squaring the circle
The latest theories on how Stonehenge was built were aired at a Royal Society conference this week. John Davies reports. This issue of The THES went to press just before the astronomical milestone of...
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Risk in the rules
A NASA work culture that 'normalised' the danger signs led tothe Challenger disaster, sociologist Diane Vaughan tells John Davies. Diane Vaughan is no rocket scientist; she is a sociologist. But when...
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Sino the times
As China becomes a richer society it is ironically turning its back on a wealth of discovery about its past. Jessica Rawson reports The past 25 years has been an era of major Chinese archaeological...
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Deadly cloud, silver lining
The Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster had some benefits. It damaged the nuclear electricity industry and was a catalyst for the break up of the Soviet Union, argues Zhores Medvedev Although...
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Labour looks likely winner
It is risky to forecast the result of the general election with the contest perhaps more than one year away. Unlike 1992, the economy will probably not be in recession and the recent past should warn...
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Sultans of swing
Rallings and Thrasher, the brash young turks of election punditry, tell Simon Targett how they will beat the pollsters in predicting the result of the next general election Unless you happen to be a...
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Meaningful shifts
I was pleased to read Jean Aitchison's spirited defence of her recent series of Reith lectures. May I take issue with her on the vexed pronunciation of kilometre? Professor Aitchison cites the long-...
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Meaningful shifts
Jean Aitchison (THES, March 22) is right to reject the pedantic, xenophobic and snobbish prejudice of many of her correspondents. But she quotes with evident approval a sneering attempt to stereotype...
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Skills make real world go round
Student support is a key concern for Dearing and any sensible analysis of undergraduates' needs means engaging in the oft-muddled debate on skills. Dearing's review will focus on maximum...
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Just a push at an open door
Sir Ron Dearing's review of higher education starts in a few weeks. Below, academics kick off debate in The THES with their views on what evidence he should consider. The Dearing review is Britain's...
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Testing time at the seaside
Next week's National Union of Students meeting in Blackpool has a lengthy agenda, but as in all discussions of higher education, money and organisation will dominate. Students are one of the key...