From today's UK papers
The Independent Thousands of teaching posts remain unfilled less than a month before the start of the new school year, a survey by The Independent has found. The UK government is to spend £5m on...
The Independent Thousands of teaching posts remain unfilled less than a month before the start of the new school year, a survey by The Independent has found. The UK government is to spend £5m on...
The Daily Telegraph Local councils are to get Whitehall funding to install more road humps despite a government-commissioned Transport Research Laboratory study showing that they increase pollution....
US releases Russian student on bail A Russian graduate student at Bauman Moscow State Technical University has been released on bail after three weeks in custody in the United...
Engineering dropout rate hits one-third More than one in three engineering undergraduates drops out, says a report published today by the Engineering Employers Federation and the Engineering and...
Danish university accused of gambling Denmark’s ministry of taxation has accused Aarhus University of illegal involvement in gambling through an internet-based book, run by its Institute of Economy,...
The Independent A local council has set up its own teacher supply agency in a pioneering scheme to avoid shelling out thousands of pounds for the services of staffing companies. Scientists at North...
Intellectual property advisory committee launched The government has set up an intellectual property advisory committee to provide long-term strategy advice on issues such as patents and copyright....
The way forward for universities is to better engage with the local population, argues Ian Gibson. Another glossy document comes through the post. The Regional Mission , produced by Universities UK...
Independent Government scientists have found evidence to suggest that BSE might have infected sheep - something until now considered to be only a theoretical possibility. Times Some 2,000 teachers in...
A 'mocumentary' on paedophilia was a valid critique of media sensationalism and exploitation, says Colin Clark. In the wake of the furore over Channel Four's screening of the Brass Eye spoof...
It is right that statements by scientists that touch on ethical issues be scrutinised for departures from scientific objectivity. It is also sensible to be wary when scientific methods such as...
Stepping down from the relative warmth of the Land Cruiser, I crunch across the sand for about 15ft to what looks like part of a blackened, burnt-out log. I kneel down closer - close enough so the...
The Los Alamos E-Print Archive has helped thousands of physicists and mathematicians worldwide to gain access to a wealth of research over the past ten years. Julia Hinde looks at its success. A...

Despite extreme heat, archaeologists converge every year from July to September on a dusty Turkish plain. Çatalhöyük has become one of the world's busiest archaeological sites, but size can have its...

It is a 9,000-year-old, early Neolithic village - considered by some to be the world's first city. Some say it could have housed up to 10,000 people. It was unearthed in the 1960s and was found to...