MM 2001: Moral rights, global responsibilities
The more the fight for human rights gains in popularity, the more it loses any concrete content," writes novelist Milan Kundera in Immortality. "The world has become man's right and everything in it...
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MM 2001: Death sentence for disease?
Cures for Alzheimer's, Aids and cancer are all potential prizes for geneticists. Geoff Watts spoke to some of those working at the cutting edge of research Health care has always been shaped by...
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MM 2001: Environment - Books
A Consumer's Guide to Genetically Modified Food: From Green Genes to Red Herrings By Alan McHughen Oxford University Press, £60.00 The gene is out of the test tube, warns Alan McHughen, and there is...
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The poor get stuffed for Christmas
Some mature students are so poor that their children will go without presents this Christmas, according to an explosive report into student finances commissioned by the government. Lone parents, who...
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Latest international news
Mounties on trail of student loan fraudsters The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is investigating a C$2 million (£893,000) student loan fraud. One man has been arrested and more arrests are expected....
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Early January should see the blooming of the government's new white paper on the knowledge economy - the latest competitiveness white paper. BP will announce £2.5m funding for...
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Latest UK news
Pay bargaining chief resigns University pay bargaining chief Peter Humphreys today announced his resignation and said that local pay bargaining is almost certain to become the norm in the sector. Mr...
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TV & radio guide - Wednesday
Truman (9.25 am BBC2, also Thurs 9.15 am, Friday 9.00 am ). Three-part profile of former US president. The Civil War: Traitors and Patriots (10.00 am History Channel) and » The West : Speck of the...
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Latest international news
University reopens after student protest The University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso has reopened two months after a boycott of lectures by students demanding better living and...
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From today's UK papers
THE GUARDIAN After 30 years of stonewalling, the United Kingdom government is finally considering following the lead of 91 other countries and signing the Unesco convention banning the international...
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Latest UK news
OU vice-chancellor leaves for Unesco Sir John Daniel, vice-chancellor of the Open University, is to be assistant director general of Unesco from next spring. Sir John said it would be a “wrench” to...
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TV & radio guide - Tuesday
The Snowman (9.30 am R4). Are snowmen pagan survivals? This and other questions considered by experts in folklore, theology, philosophy … The Civil War: The Cause (10.00 am History Channel, and for...
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Latest international news
Court frees academic jailed for terrorism United States attorney general Janet Reno has freed Mazen Al-Najjar, who was jailed as a suspected terrorist in May 1997. Professor Al-Najjar was...
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Latest UK news
London's research dominance comes under threat Vice-chancellors from London universities and further education institutions have told London mayor Ken Livingstone that the capital’s position as the...
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From today's UK papers
DAILY MAIL MPs will decide tomorrow whether British scientists should be allowed to clone human embryos for research that might lead to cures for diseases such as Alzheimer's Research from...