The abominable media coverage of major world events inspired Anthony Barnett to create a forum to encourage democratic debate. Huw Richards reports on opendemocracy.net, a digital hub for scholars...
Myth-making and storytelling have helped to repackage Ireland's recent history. Sean Coughlan meets the man who is determined to reveal the truth beneath the idealised vision Storytelling has a deep-...
James Watson made his name with the discovery of the double helix in 1953. In his latest book, he draws on personal correspondence to recall what happened next. Jon Turney reports. How pleasant to be...
Female academics face discrimination Women, including female academics, suffer discrimination in trying to commercialise their ideas and discoveries, according to a new report from the Industrial...
Petition to reinstate Harvard officers' corps Nine hundred Harvard alumni have signed a petition seeking the return to campus of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps 32 years after it was abolished...
Carey only second double Booker The Australian-born novelist Peter Carey won the £21,000 Booker Prize, fiction's most prestigious award, for the second time last night. His tale of Australian outlaw...
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Bush fills postsecondary gap President Bush is to nominate Sally Stroup as assistant secretary for postsecondary education, the leading policy-maker on higher-education issues. Ms Stroup is a former...
Education secretary invites employers' input Employers should have more say in the education and training provided by universities and colleges, education secretary Estelle Morris told an employers'...
Blair hints at tax rise Tony Blair gave his clearest signal yesterday that taxes would have to rise to allow Labour to continue to plough more money into health and education. ( Independent ) Star...
Russia is to increase spending on fundamental science by Rbl921 million (£22 million), taking the total to R30.3 billion in 2002.
Former QAA boss issues accountability warning Ex-quality assurance chief John Randall has warned that consumers are demanding accountability from universities after a series of scandals...
Education 'still failing the poor' British education is still failing to realise the potential of poor children, former prime minister Lord Callaghan said today in an interview with The Guardian to...
Britain's first "designer baby" will be born by the end of the year. A British couple have side-stepped UK regulations and undergone treatment in the US to ensure they give birth to a baby...
Soros gives $250m to Budapest institution Financier George Soros has donated $250 million (£175 million) to the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, which he founded ten years ago to...