Robots to moonwalk
Thirty years since the "small step for man" on to the moon, advanced computing technology is boosting the development of a new breed of planetary explorers, machines. A team of computer scientists...
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Dental revolution is imminent
Private dentistry is continuing to expand and the mass exodus of surgeries from the NHS over the 1990s reflects both "knightly and knavish" motives on the part of dentists, according to a study out...
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Star turn
Students sing the praises of a woman who is passing on the heritage of Scottish folk songs. Olga Wojtas listens in Learning has probably never been more congenial for the students attending Stirling...
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Learning, growing: A student's view
"The project gave me the chance to help a voluntary organisation and made me consider the role of researchers more carefully. I believe that students tend not to place much importance on the...
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CBI jibs at loan scheme
Business leaders this week attacked government plans to make employers responsible for collecting student loan repayment. The Confederation of British Industry said that the rules, to take effect...
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Boxing clever
(Photograph) - Leeds University student Monica Llamazares with the first of an emergency consignment of 28 computers donated by the computing services department to help the University of Pristina...
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Students return to Pristina University
Hundreds of students are returning to the University of Pristina, now unofficially in Albanian hands, hoping to enrol for the new academic year. But impatience is growing as western agencies insist...
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'No fees, no results' stance could backfire on universities
Universities could be prevented from withholding degree results from students who have defaulted on their tuition fees by the Human Rights Act 1998, writes Alison Goddard Institutions could incur "...
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Lumière and Gandhi - together at last
Cinema and the Indian Freedom Struggle
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Man of God or sultan of spin?
Khomeini
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is by an autobiographical writer whose ideas on countryside management would noy coincide with those of Tony...
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A history of everything?
A History of Experimental Film and Video
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Auteurism's flowering produces oriental fruit
The Films of Oshima Nagisa
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Emerging market in scruples slumps
Companies in a World of Conflict - Business Ethics - Management and Morality
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The media and the massage
Message Received