Something must be done about student poverty, but ruling out top-up fees is not necessarily the right answer. Evidence is mounting of students too hard-up to eat properly, study effectively or even...
Pick of the week Ten years ago playwright David Hare complained about "the idea that is now very popular... that Bob Dylan is just as good a poet as Keats." Former Cambridge Prof. Christopher Ricks...
The Oxford Amnesty Lectures, which have raised more than £80,000 for Amnesty International, began in 1992 and are one of the world's leading name-lecture series. Each series is published in book form...
Can a country ever justify military intervention in another country's affairs? Only in extreme cases such as Rwanda, argues Tzvetan Todorov, when there is evidence of genocide. The military...
The UK government has voiced its commitment to tackling the link between ill health and poverty, so why is it ignoring those most at risk - the children of refugees? ask Margaret Lawson and Elizabeth...
Ignorance has marred relations between Ireland's north and south, but a centre for cross-border studies is seeking common ground on both sides of the divide. Anne McHardy reports. In a windswept...
In Britain it might keep your child off school, but in Malawi it is a killer. What turns a nasty virus into a deadly cancer? Geoff Watts reports on a medical mystery. Scenario one. Peter, a teenager...
Novel Russia (11.00 am R4). Contemporary Russia through the themes of Anna Karenina . Culture Fix: Kitsch (1.30, also 4.30, 7.30 BBC Knowledge). The brief history of an idea. Goodbye Village, Hello...
South African campus faces bankruptcy South Africa’s University of the North, which is owed more than R150 million (£129,000) in outstanding tuition and boarding fees, faces bankruptcy...
FINANCIAL TIMES A £100m investment fund is being raised with the aim of commercialising technology research from four English universities. Chemists from the University of Nottingham believe they...
Education and employment secretary David Blunkett today confirmed the government’s position that there will be no top-up fees in the next Parliament. Mr Blunkett said: “I have made my position clear...
In a wide-ranging speech setting out his government's case for re-election this spring, prime minister Tony Blair said today that there would be £2,000 bursaries for students from poor families, a...
Melvyn Bragg – In Our Time (9.00 am R4). Humanism discussed, with Lisa Jardine and Tony Davis. The Material World (4.30 R4). The University of Pisa's research on people in love. The Jewish Journey (8...
Demonstrators strip staff Demonstrators commemorated the first anniversary of the police raid that ended a ten-month occupation of the National Autonomous University of Mexico by blockading...
Laptop plan criticised by NUS Warwick University's proposal to require students to have laptop computers has been called “top-up fees by the back door” by the National Union of Students....