Doctor still causing a Who-ha
As if by some quirk in the space-time continuum, embarrassing special effects and wobbly sets have done nothing to diminish Doctor Who's position as an iconic television institution in the UK, writes...
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BFI seeks HE partner
The British Film Institute is seeking a higher education partner to help develop what is believed to be the world's most comprehensive film and TV library, writes Tony Tysome. The BFI aims to create...
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Trainer fights for UKeU cash
A leading online training company stands to lose hundreds of thousands of pounds for learning materials it was contracted to produce for the failed UK e-University venture. Doctors.net.uk, which won...
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Scholar strips to show why Ancient Greek athletes raced in the nude
An academic has stripped off for the TV cameras in a bid to test his theory that Ancient Greek athletes competed naked to run faster. Stephen Instone, an honorary research fellow at University...
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Warning issued on overseas courses
UK universities and higher education colleges are not on top of everything that happens in their name overseas, researchers have warned. They need to be better informed and think more strategically...
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Two votes foil introduction of tuition fees in Slovakia
Legislation to introduce tuition fees at Slovak universities from January 2005 is to be redrafted after the country's Parliament rejected it - by two votes. Martin Fronc, the education minister, said...
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Holland to sample variable charges
University leaders in the Netherlands expect a limited experiment with variable fees to go ahead despite the resignation last month of a junior minister in the coalition government who was the...
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Give cash back as tax credits, says expert
University graduates in England and Australia pay far more in tax during their working lives than the cost of their education and therefore should not be charged for their studies, an English...
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Turkey pushes to reopen seminary
A theological higher education seminary on an island off the Turkish coast could be about to reopen after more than 30 years. Abdullah Gul, the Turkish foreign minster, said "work is under way" to...
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Toumaï tooth trouble
Palaeontologist Michel Brunet has dismissed claims that a tooth was stuck in the wrong place during reconstruction of Toumaï, a fossilised skull some 7 million years old, recognised as belonging to...
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Land where women can really clean up
If Iranian men divorce, they have to give their wives back pay for housework. As the West pushes for democracy in Iraq, Huw Richards asks if we should be focusing on its more liberal neighbour, in...
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You say 'terrorist', I say God-fearing Muslim
As power is handed over in Iraq, academics assess the impact of US foreign policy at home and abroad. Whatever America's intentions in the Middle East, most of the Arab world views the superpower as...
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They may be down, but they're not out
As power is handed over in Iraq, academics assess the impact of US foreign policy at home and abroad. Have the neocons had their day or could they bounce back? ask Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke....
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Loaded, landed and out of luck
As the Anglo-American Conference of Historians gathers, we offer three takes on its theme, wealth and poverty. The fate of the rich over the 20th century has been largely in the hands of the taxman,...
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Jewish fortunes cut from a one-of-a-kind cloth
As the Anglo-American Conference of Historians gathers, we offer three takes on its theme, wealth and poverty. The archetype of successful immigrant entrepreneurs was built on the rise of the rag...