A stab in the dark
Strathclyde University is aiming for the cutting edge of research with an appeal for industrial partners to develop ways of testing stab-proof vests. The department of mechanical engineering, which...
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Jungians welcomed into fold
The famous rift between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung is healing - and it is happening in Colchester, according to one of the joint holders of the country's first chair in Jungian analysis. The...
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Internet News
The THES Internet Service also includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper and all our advertisements, updated on the Tuesday before publication of the paper. The service is availableon...
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Punting for Cambridge
A summer school for inner-city, state-educated, ethnic minority pupils - with little or no post-16 education - was held at Cambridge University last week. Twenty pupils from schools in London and the...
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Outcry over bid to control patent rights
The Wellcome Trust, Britain's biggest research charity, has delayed the announcement of plans to control intellectual property rights following an outcry from universities. The charity was to...
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Arranged marriage for FE sector
A merger looks certain to take place next year between the two rival bodies representing the further education sector. The boards of the Association for Colleges and the Colleges Employers Forum will...
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Pounds 100,000 fines for missing HEFCE deadlines
Vice chancellors are to oppose plans to fine universities up to Pounds 100,000 each if they miss deadlines for sending data to the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The penalty is being...
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Humane behaviour
During the past few years there has been a discernible shift in popular attitudes towards the social sciences, accelerated by government consultations about national competitiveness and technology...
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Brain boxer
Alumni to be proud of No. 5: "Nine credits shy of a bachelor's degree" may sound like a euphemism for the mental state of any one willing to climb into a boxing ring for even 89 seconds with Mike...
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Building bricks
Further education colleges are asking the Chancellor to invest Pounds 40 million a year in new and refurbished buildings to cope with growing student numbers. The Association for Colleges' public...
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The river of sorrows
The Indians of the Amazon, remnants of advanced civilisations decimated by genocide and disease, now face extinction. Claude Levi-Strauss revisits photographs he took more than 50 years ago and muses...
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Vantastic voyage home
(Photograph) - The pop music superstar who advised "No Guru, No Method, No Teacher" is to teach after all. Singer-song writer Van Morrison is to turn his talents to lecturing in his home territory of...
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Graduates get 12-month guarantee
A growing number of colleges in the United States are sending graduates to the job market backed by a 12-month guarantee against a defective education. They promise future employers that if their...
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Electronic access to Public Records Office plea
Historians are launching a campaign for easier access to the archives held by former imperial powers such as Britain. The Public Record Office at Kew in London came in for particularly heavy...
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Israeli steps to Arab integration
In reference to "Arab call for jobs in Israel's academia" (THES, August 18), we would like to inform you that steps have already been taken to increase the number of Arab tenured academic staff in...