Part-time pay off
More than 250 part-time lecturers have won a total Pounds 100,000 for unfair dismissal or redundancy compensation since the House of Lords ruled last year that they had the right to pursue such...
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Medics' malaise
The latest British Medical Association survey of medical students' finances reveals record debt levels, with an average debt of Pounds 3,696, almost 30 per cent higher than last year. The average...
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Internet news
The THES Internet Service includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper and all our job advertisements, updated on the Tuesday before publication of the paper. The service is availableon...
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Soap plot thickens as writers join course
Two leading writers from the soap world are to join university lecturers to teach up-and-coming scriptwriters some tricks of the trade. EastEnders writer Chris Reason and Emmerdale's Gary Brown will...
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Train of thought: The newly formed Institute of Railway Studies at York
(Photograph) - Train of thought: The newly formed Institute of Railway Studies at York has taken on two research students. Professor of railway studies, Colin Divall (centre), has offered...
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Grey network is proposed
Research into ageing is uncoordinated, underfunded and sometimes duplicated, say the proponents of a scheme to set up a national centre for ageing research. The solution is to start a network to...
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Industrial revolution
(Photograph) - Industrial revolution: Apprenticeships are heading for a renaissance thanks to a Pounds 1.29 billion Government initiative to bring 150,000 youngsters back into industry by the end of...
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Red tape dashes chances
Hundreds of school and college leavers expecting to gain new vocational A levels have had their hopes of a place in higher education dashed by red tape. Admissions chiefs said this week they were "...
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Rejected candidate loses court bid for place
University medical schools have escaped being forced to narrow their entry criteria following a court ruling this week. Conor O'Reilly, an academically qualified teenager who was rejected by Glasgow...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a 20th-century writer interested in a degree of sexual latitude: "Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they...
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A secular version of the soul
The DNA Mystique
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Big brother's shady son
The Secret State
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Charge of the slight brigade
The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Army
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Humpty-Dumpty Hibernianism
Heathcliff and The Great Hunger
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Kultur v. politique
German Ideology