The Treasury's fatal choice
Did the British government, as nationalists claim, exacerbate last century's potato blight so causing the Irish famine? Patrick McGregor sifts the evidence. The great Irish famine, triggered by the...
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Shroud recovers its mystery
Was the science that declared the Turin Shroud a fake flawed? Ian Wilson believes he has uncovered evidence that renders its findings dubious. By all normal standards of rationality the Turin Shroud...
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Lecturers lay down the law
North America A rising number of United States college professors are using their course syllabi to lay down codes of conduct for students, who they say are becoming increasingly unruly. Along with...
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Union calls off boycott
North America Canada's academic trade union has called off an international boycott of the Technical University of British Columbia. The Canadian Association of University Teachers says it is...
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Academics join forces to grill public
ACADEMIC work groups have been set up to frame a series of questions for thousands of ordinary Britons participating in the country's social research programmes. More than 80 users of the 1946, 1958...
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Battle against cancer takes to the stars
Scientists are adapting the latest techniques for studying stars and distant galaxies to help in the battle against cancer. Researchers from Leicester University's physics and astronomy department...
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Oaks, pines and pastures new for geographers
Geographers at Loughborough University are to receive Pounds 233,000 to look into the impact on groundwater reserves of increasing wooded land in the United Kingdom. The project team, led by Ian Reid...
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Minimum wage myth
ECONOMISTS' traditional opposition to a statutory minimum wage is misguided, according to a new theory presented by Warwick and St Andrews University researchers to the conference. Evidence is...
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Why monetary union may derail Germany
The Royal Economic Society held its annual conference at Warwick University this week FAR FROM being the engine of the Maastricht convergence process, Germany is in danger of being derailed by it and...
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Big demand for English lessons
STUDENTS in South Korea are learning more about the west as part of their country's Saegaewha, or "Greater Globalisation", programme. English language, western business and other international...
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Chinese defend scientist spy
A Taiwan-born scientist sentenced to a year in a California community corrections facility after admitting he spied for China was the subject of "persecution" by the justice department, according to...
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Protesters offered peace talks
WEEKS of demonstrations have forced the Indonesian government to offer a national-level dialogue with student representatives. General Wiranto, defence and security minister, and armed forces...
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Kenyans turn to Britain for skills
KENYAN students are increasingly interested in British universities as an escape from resource-starved local universities with their overworked lecturers and limited learning facilities. They also...
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Misspelling doctrine
Rumours abound of falling standards in higher education but surely there is one word the politically aware student should learn to spell before you can say conspiracy. Sadly not. The main NUS...
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Access debate divides academics
A decision to raise entry requirements for most students at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem has provoked debate among academics. Opponents of the move point out that universities are already...