Relaunch for Cluster mission
BRITISH space scientists have received the boost they had been hoping for with news that the Cluster mission which ended in an explosion nine months ago is to be relaunched. Funding to build Cluster...
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Whig heir shows liberal roots
Conrad Russell, scion of one of the most patrician families in the land, is unhappy with Tony Blair's lurch to the right. The Liberal Democrat peer tells Huw Richards why he detests new Labour...
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The knowledge monopoly
Peruvian Francisco Sagasti appeals to scientists for a little more equality in the global order of knowledge When Francisco Sagasti addressed this year's opening session of the annual meeting of the...
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Trading Queen Vic for a car park
The Irish not only threw out the British, but their statues too. Paula Murphy traces the ruins of Dublin's imperial past Art history may not, at first glance, seem to be very relevant to a discussion...
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Madness becomes normal
Schizophrenic traits may be common in many people If media coverage of schizophrenia was all you had to go on, you could be forgiven for thinking that all schizophrenics were violent murderers. If so...
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Dark episodes and scar tissue on the psyche
A new study argues that people can remember previously forgotten experiences, including abuse by their parents Can people remember previously forgotten traumatic incidents? The debate about so-called...
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Deer hunters must call off the dogs
Red deer cannot sweat and are not designed to run for long distances, so literally hounding them to death cannot be justified, argues Patrick Bateson, author of a National Trust report published this...
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Learning a new body language
A former Bunny girl turned immunologist may have found the answer to why tumours are not attacked by the body's immune system There is nothing conventional about Polly Matzinger, America's latest...
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Singular man of sceptical faith
Alan Sked does not look like a politician or sound like an academic but he is both. Lucy Hodges talks to him about his political party and his loathing for the European Union Alan Sked was getting...
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Standards trump card offers hope
The next government must resolve several tricky quality and standard issues AS IN OTHER policy areas, the Conservatives are constrained by having been the Government for the past 18 years,...
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A plea for sense and sensitivity
The next government must resolve several tricky quality and standards issues IN ITS SUBMISSION to the Dearing Inquiry, Lifelong Learning, Labour endorsed the creation of the single quality agency "as...
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Arcane and disabling
Complex, academic writing prevents communication and is anathema to employers, argues Ann Lewis Universities are partly responsible for our jargon-ridden society as they churn out graduates hooked on...
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Cash crisis hits trainees' wardrobe
Teacher training has emerged as a hot election issue A crisis is looming in teacher training recruitment, two new reports indicate. Last week a report from the cross-party House of Commons Education...
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Problem solvers are survivors
As the British Psychological Society meets this week, THES reporters review latest research People with confidence in their own problem-solving abilities are more likely to survive aeroplane crashes...
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Barbie's boyfriend proves man's ideal
As the British Psychological Society meets this week, THES reporters review latest research The constant parade of supermodels throughout the media has led to what psychologists have dubbed the "...