Research Fellowships
Deadline: 04/03/2002
Deadline: 04/03/2002
Routes of English (9.00 am R4). London Jamaican. Melvyn Bragg consults Linton Kwesi Johnson and people on the streets of Brixton. » Routes of English Crossing Continents (11.00 am R4). Swedes under...
Sylvan Learning buys Chilean stake Sylvan Learning Systems Inc, which in 1999 bought a controlling interest in the European University of Madrid, will pay $21 million for 60 per cent of a Chilean...
FINANCIAL TIMES Unwanted Christmas gifts are economically inefficient. John Kay examines US academic Joel Waldford's super-rational view of Christmas. THE GUARDIAN Thirty-six Scottish pupils may...
Degrees don't make tycoons A university education does not help in the property market, a new survey suggests. Fourteen of the 20 tycoons on "The UK Property Rich List", published in the...
A Short History of Darkness (3.45 R4). Final 15-minute exploration embraces dark matter, fears of the dark, etc. With new poems by Colette Bryce and Ruth Padel. Thinking Allowed (4.00 R4). Laurie...
Turkmenistan president doubles student grants President Saparmyrat Niyazov of Turkmenistan has doubled all student grants in honour of the fifth anniversary of his country’s neutrality.&...
FINANCIAL TIMES The high-tech revolution means Indian students are in demand, but Australia, in spite of its smaller university system, attracts many more than the UK. THE GUARDIAN MPs are to...
A-level standards panel launched An international review panel to examine the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority’s stewardship of A-level standards is being launched today by the authority’s new...
The Ancient Ark (9.30 am R4). The eagle in cultural mythology (repeat series). Solitude (11.00 am R4). Second half of Peter France's examination of being alone concentrates on enforced solitude -...
Sicily opens Mafia museum UN secretary-general Kofi Annan will tomorrow open a museum and documentation centre devoted to the Mafia in the Sicilian village of Corleone. The centre, linked to the...
Computer bug could strike Scottish exams A millennium bug in the Scottish Qualifications Authority’s new computer system could affect next year’s examinations, the Scottish Parliament’s...
FINANCIAL TIMES The family of David Goldman, founder of multibillion-pound software company The Sage Group, has given a seven-figure endowment to Newcastle University's School of Management. The Bank...
Composer of the Week (9.00 am R3 and rest of week) is E. J. Moeran. Start the Week (9.00 am R4). Featuring historian Niall Ferguson on his first internet lecture and the rise of the e-university. »...
Music Matters (12.15 R3). Music in the classroom, plus travelling folk singers. Classic Serial (3.00 R4). Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass adapted by Hattie Naylor. Among the supporting...