Perhaps the three greatest outstanding challenges to science at the turn of the Millennium are the origin of the universe, the origin of life and the origin of consciousness. The first and last of...
The ANC's attempts to make South Africa's universities cater for the black majority population has plunged them into crisis, argues R. W. Johnson South Africa's universities are struggling against...
Last week 150 academics supported a letter opposing the government's welfare reforms. In the latest in the series on social exclusion, Ruth Lister explains what is wrong with pushing people off...
Two thousand new research journals spin off the presses every year. Why? reports Ever heard of Bradford's law? It is the rule that of the cornucopia of journals produced by academics to publish the...
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a novel in which the narrator shares a birthday with 1,000 others: "I was...
Gaia's Body
The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science
Studies Show
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals - The Emotional Brain
The Art of Moral Protest
(Photograph) - Tate Gallery: Elizabeth Tate, lecturer at Sunderland University, installs her sculpture, 'Bronze Grove', as part of a university exhibition at Bradley Nursery and Gardens, Wylam,...
ABOUT 1,000 extra places will be created for medical students each year from 2005 - a 20 per cent increase on present levels - the government has announced. But academics are warning that quality...
THE University of Manchester medical school has come up with a radical solution to curriculum overload, writes Alison Utley. It has decided to abandon big lectures, and replace them with problem-...
Seen on the front of a box of research application forms at an unnamed university last week was the following advice: "HEALTH WARNING: Researching can damage your health. Most vice-chancellors don't...