As a Colombian guerrilla group with leftist academic ties returns to its bloody campaign, Domenico Pacitti probes the roots of decades of violence. The failure of peace talks between the Colombian...
Gagarin Way , the Tarantinoesque hit of the Edinburgh Festival, is a backward-looking play that is eclipsing risk-taking projects, argues Greg Giesekam. Few observers of theatre will not now know of...
Tension is mounting over land reform in South Africa. Can the government avoid a Zimbabwe scenario? Karen MacGregor reports. Pat Dunn's life has been a nightmare since she returned from political...
During a visit to Islamic faculties in Kuala Lumpur this summer, I was struck by the number of academic staff holding PhDs from Britain. At one meeting, at the National University of Malaysia, of...
Slump in science applications The number of people signing up to do degrees in the traditional science subjects of physics, chemistry and biology is down this year compared with 2000, according to...
Guardian The international Commission on Global Ageing has warned that the rapid ageing of developed-world populations is a threat to the global economy. Independent The world's rarest whale may be...
French police issue photofit after murder at business school French police have issued a photofit of a young man following the murder of the head of security at Insead, one of France's top business...
Financial Times Animal-rights campaigners are planning to launch legal proceedings against Huntingdon Life Sciences unless the government takes action against the drug-testing group for breaking...
Brazilian education minister Paulo Renato Souza has announced free pre-university admission courses reserved exclusively for black students, ahead of this week’s UN conference on racism in Durban. Mr...
Genetics firms battle over chickens University of Georgia-based AviGenics has filed a lawsuit in the United States to prevent Edinburgh's Roslin Institute and US biotech firm Viragen from pursuing...
US court rules against university A United States federal court of appeal has ruled the University of Georgia's admissions process unconstitutional because it gave an advantage to non-white...
Financial Times The US National Institutes of Health admitted yesterday that there may be supply problems with some of the 64 embryonic stem-cell lines that it has said would be available for...
The Royal Society is not biased against women, says Nancy Rothwell. It is motherhood that holds us back. Has sexism reared its ugly head in that most revered of scientific institutions, the Royal...
John Randall explains why the proposed alternative to the QAA will fail to fulfil customer needs. Two entirely false presumptions underpin the proposals for future quality assurance arrangements in...
As part of the guinea-pig generation, since the age of seven I have taken every exam that the powers that be could think up. Although they have been regular - every two years or so - they have...