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Show me the science
TV's science programming is a joke, says Nobel prizewinning chemistry professor Harry Kroto. That's why he has set up an alternative - with proper science and real experts. Is the time right for an...
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Surfing past terrestrial television
Recently, direct streaming of video images over the worldwide web has moved from the realm of science fantasy into one of today's most exciting internet technologies. Although still in its infancy,...
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Of uncertain tomorrows
A son of Palestine, a citizen of the US; respected by academe, demonised by Zionists; embroiled in a nine-year battle with leukaemia, Edward Said's life has been marked by uncertainty. Here he tells...
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The cancer in our charities
US cancer specialist Samuel Epstein has sparked a row with UK cancer charities by suggesting they are riddled with conflicts of interest -an accusation that they vigorously deny. Ayala Ochert reports...
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How hard-wearing is your software?
HYPERMEDIA AND THE WEB:An Engineering approach. David Lowe and Wendy Hall. Wiley. 623pp. Pounds .50. - ISBN 0 471 98312 8. Thirty years ago there was a series of software disasters. As a result...
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Firms send students to Northern Ireland
More than half the foreign students who come to the United Kingdom for work experience go to Northern Ireland. Study and exchange placements have gained an increasing reputation internationally and...
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Oxford focuses on Gemini telescopes
Oxford University is to become the centre for scientists wanting to use the Gemini telescopes to study infrared images of astronomical phenomena. The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council...
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Happiness is ... being a medical secretary
Medical secretaries, butchers, cleaners and petrol pump attendants enjoy far greater job satisfaction than academics in higher and further education, according to researchers at Bath University....
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Nurses prefer more practice, less theory
Some 88 per cent of new nurses and midwives think their studies prepared them well for practice, according to a survey of 4,880 final-year students. But more than half said they preferred more...
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British education must embrace a new world
In the last of our summer series on education at the end of the century, Howard Newby asks if UK universities are up to the challenge of globalisation In recent years higher education in the UK has...
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Challenges of the new century
Pay, quality assurance and other topical matters are bound to dominate next week's annual meeting of the vice-chancellors of Britain's universities. But what is really needed is a broader strategic...
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Saving for study
The government is rightly alarmed at the pace of social polarisation. As booming shares and rising house prices make the rich richer, the poor, lacking jobs, qualifications, and even access to IT,...
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Principal defends RAE
The research assessment exercise's selective funding is an inevitable consequence of technological advance rather than being elitist and unfair, according to Edinburgh University's principal, Sir...
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And the winner is... me
'The panel would want to be confident that what they were doing was fair and that Professor Brooke was not unduly advantaged' The don appointed to Oxford University's prestigious new chair in science...