Agents of cooperation in border life
Ignorance has marred relations between Ireland's north and south, but a centre for cross-border studies is seeking common ground on both sides of the divide. Anne McHardy reports. In a windswept...
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On the trail of the killer that doctors forgot
In Britain it might keep your child off school, but in Malawi it is a killer. What turns a nasty virus into a deadly cancer? Geoff Watts reports on a medical mystery. Scenario one. Peter, a teenager...
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TV & radio guide - Friday
Novel Russia (11.00 am R4). Contemporary Russia through the themes of Anna Karenina . Culture Fix: Kitsch (1.30, also 4.30, 7.30 BBC Knowledge). The brief history of an idea. Goodbye Village, Hello...
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Latest international news
South African campus faces bankruptcy South Africa’s University of the North, which is owed more than R150 million (£129,000) in outstanding tuition and boarding fees, faces bankruptcy...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES A £100m investment fund is being raised with the aim of commercialising technology research from four English universities. Chemists from the University of Nottingham believe they...
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Blunkett rules out top-ups
Education and employment secretary David Blunkett today confirmed the government’s position that there will be no top-up fees in the next Parliament. Mr Blunkett said: “I have made my position clear...
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Hopeful Blair plugs access plan
In a wide-ranging speech setting out his government's case for re-election this spring, prime minister Tony Blair said today that there would be £2,000 bursaries for students from poor families, a...
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Daily TV & radio - Thursday
Melvyn Bragg – In Our Time (9.00 am R4). Humanism discussed, with Lisa Jardine and Tony Davis. The Material World (4.30 R4). The University of Pisa's research on people in love. The Jewish Journey (8...
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Latest international news
Demonstrators strip staff Demonstrators commemorated the first anniversary of the police raid that ended a ten-month occupation of the National Autonomous University of Mexico by blockading...
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Latest UK news
Laptop plan criticised by NUS Warwick University's proposal to require students to have laptop computers has been called “top-up fees by the back door” by the National Union of Students....
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES MPs' calls for universities to receive greater financial rewards for taking students from poor areas are likely to be rebuffed by the government. A Japanese law has opened...
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Daily TV & radio - Wednesday
Memories Are Made of These (11.00 am R4). Faltering memory and the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon. Stephen Hawking's Universe (2.00, also 5.00, 8.00 BBC Knowledge). Repeat series from 1997 reaches...
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Latest UK news
Pressure grows to widen participation A post-qualification applications system should be introduced to increase the numbers of state-school pupils at top universities, a report by the...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES The Law Society is to check the quality of all undergraduate law degree courses in England and Wales. THE GUARDIAN Geoffrey Alderman argues that the American model of positive...
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Latest international news
Senegal appoints education minister Senegal's minister for higher education has been replaced less than a week after a student was shot dead during clashes with the police, and on the eve of a...