Relief at new EU laws on copyright
Universities and libraries heaved a sigh of relief this week as the European Parliament passed legislation to harmonise copyright law across Europe. MEPs rejected all but a few amendments to the...
Universities and libraries heaved a sigh of relief this week as the European Parliament passed legislation to harmonise copyright law across Europe. MEPs rejected all but a few amendments to the...
Queen's University, Belfast, and the University of Ulster are working with further education colleges to provide foundation degree pilots from September. Higher and further education minister Sean...
Manchester University was celebrating a windfall yesterday as its John Rylands Library received a grant of £6 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The Victorian neo-Gothic library and its...
Anne Wright, chief executive of the University for Industry, announced this week that she is to leave her post in September to become an adviser on post-16 e-learning to the Department for Education...
Oxford University's income from research grants and contracts rose by 10 per cent last year (1999-2000) to £130 million. For the first time the value of research grants from United Kingdom charities...
Characters from children's television programmes are the favourite pet names used between lovers, researchers have found. This year, Homer and Marge from the The Simpsons, Cartman from South Park and...
Due to an error in editing, Diana Green's article on student finance incorrectly referred to Unite Student Living Report as the MORI Student Living Report. We apologise for this error.
Rethinking Multiculturalism
Religious Violence in Contemporary Japan
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a Nobel prize-winning novelist who once commanded a rocket ship: " There was an area east of the Isle...

Was there a distinctive British Enlightenment? Jeremy Black assesses a work that claims the age of reason flowered in a singularly British display. That there was a British Enlightenment is an...
The Biography of a Germ
From Melos to My Lai - Kennedy's Wars
The World Bank
The New Elites