Lampl: fee system is rigged
Rich students should pay the full cost of tuition fees to subsidise poor undergraduates, according to university access champion Peter Lampl. Mr Lampl, director of the Sutton Trust, which funds...
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Ig Nobel pair tries to nail the bogey of nose-picking
In the name of science they studied shower curtains, nose-pickers and the wounds inflicted by falling coconuts. Last night, the proud winners of the annual Ig Nobel prizes picked up their gongs at...
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Student cash in melting pot: Labour Party Conference
'Don't expect too much' is the message from Brighton. Alan Thomson reports. Prime minister Tony Blair has ordered a special task group to review student funding policies raising the prospect of a...
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Ageing staff cohort threatens expansion
The proportion of university teachers aged over 50 is rising at an alarming rate, according to the Association for University Teachers. An analysis shows that the age profile has increased...
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Medical schools call for monitor
Leading figures in the Scottish medical Royal Colleges have called for the creation of a national body to investigate fraud and misconduct in biomedical research, writes Caroline Davis. More than...
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Middlesex to offer three semesters a year to international students
International students at Midd-lesex University are to be offered a three-semester year - and home students may be given the option if funding issues can be sorted out. Semester one exams will be...
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Quantum leap to combat shortage
A physics degree that requires neither physics nor mathematics A level could solve the chronic teacher shortage in physics, suggests a report this week. Institute of Physics president Sir Peter...
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A passionate look at low self-esteem
Preventing Violence
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An intellectual vacuum
Where are the UK's Chomskys, Sontags and Saids? Frank Furedi mourns the demise of Britain's public intellectuals and the rise of the safe university 'expert'. At a recent discussion about the future...
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So you want to be a public intellectual?
If you are interested in "an advanced general education and life as a public intellectual", Florida Atlantic University may be for you. Since 1999, it has offered a PhD in comparative studies for...
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The bitter fruits of strategic alliance
The radical Islamic sects that threaten to derail Pakistan's commitment to the war on terrorism are a result of the country's efforts to counter India's regional supremacy, writes Ian Talbot. On...
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We cannot even define them, let alone name them...
...so how can we make war on those we call terrorists? asks David Whittaker The rhetoric from Washington about "taking out" terrorism is a predictable response provoked by the anger and grief that...
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Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind
Desire for vengeance will not end terrorism. The US must tackle it by attacking poverty and inequality worldwide, says Stanley Aronowitz. After all the talk of revenge and crusades, the posting of...
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The poetic passions between the sheets
Poetry anthologies are hotbeds of controversy, exciting rows over who's in and who's out. Peter Middleton on the latest addition. An 80-something American poet once asked me with considerable pathos...
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Conscious of the need to talk
Neural Correlates of Consciousness