The risk in widening participation on a tight budget ias a decline in graduation rates, warns Howard Newby. In the late 1970s, a prevalent theme of social-science analysis in the United States and in...
Overseas students want to learn English, business studies and information technology online, according to research conducted on behalf of the e-university. A call for proposals for courses in these...
The Darley Dale lead smelter has been recycling metal for years. It sits in the bottom of a glacial valley, yet the contour map published in the Journal of Environmental Monitoring shows the plant at...
Breaking up is never easy. But a study by psychologists at Plymouth and Wolverhampton universities suggests that the broken-hearted can share common post-traumatic stress symptoms with air- crash...
When George W. Bush meets Tony Blair this weekend, Iraq is likely to be on the agenda. Harriet Swain and Olga Wojtas talk to the experts about a strike on Saddam. As the situation in the...
From September, students with disabilities will be able to take legal action against institutions that fail to meet their needs, and it is likely that universities will be named and shamed if they...
Is the Royal Society elitist? Absolutely, but that is its purpose. On the eve of an inquiry into its merit, Geoff Watts looks at how it is trying to change with the times. Is the Royal Society...
His first book was described as Plato's Republic with a body count. Huw Richards talks to academic-turned-crime writer Paul Johnston. If Paul Johnston were the sort of person who sought scapegoats,...
Raymond Suttner looks at intellectuals' role in the growth of the 90-year-old ANC. Although the African National Congress has not thrown up one dominant thinker - no Mao or Ho Chi Minh - over its 90-...
Margo Russell talks to Robin Cohen about the changing face of Cape Town University The door to the dean's office stands open. Accessibility is one of Robin Cohen's strengths as the new dean of...
In some criminal cases, forensic entomologists can help extract valuable clues from corpses or cannabis, writes Zakaria Erzinclioglu The idea that insects can be used to solve crimes may surprise...
The death last week of the Queen Mother was seen by many as marking the end of an era. But Declan Quigley argues that while the modern monarchy may have lost much of its influence, for many it...
Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot
The Chartist Movement in Britain, 1838-1850