An ancient ritual due for sacrifice
Millions of women worldwide have suffered the searing pain and harm of clitoral circumcision. African film-maker Ladi Ladebo tells Tim Greenhalgh how he aims to show why the practice must end Ladi...
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At the cutting edge
In the first of a series in which top academics discuss their ground-breaking research, archaeologist Colin Renfrew explains how our genes hold the key to a linguistic riddle 8,000 years old The Indo...
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Glittering stars and their prizes
Brilliant objects of desire The star phenomenon got its biggest boost from Duke University, where from the mid 1980s the hiring of two huge names, Stanley Fish and Fredric Jameson, shoved Duke's...
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Temptation and forbearance
Brilliant objects of desire Stars are often made by books. In 1995, Alan Taylor, a professor of history at the University of California at Davis, won a Pulitzer Prize for William Cooper's Town. The...
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Brilliant objects of desire
Ruthless competition between American universities to recruit top talent has seen salaries for the courted few spiral, prompting fears of division and corruption, Tim Cornwell reports Tom Bender,...
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'The boy walked for and with, under the come to a all ving in the dishes front. He don't cow, but the was when the worst watch keep all the sale Christmas'
Britain at risk of botching its ABC The above is an extract from a story read by Susie, a child taught by the "real books" method. Real-books teachers are taught that children can "discover" how our...
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Flower power
STUDENTS in the grip of exams are to take part in a trial testing whether their anxiety can be eased by a remedy made of flowers. Researchers in the University of Exeter's complementary medicine...
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Crime school
Over 60 per cent of youngsters excluded from school acquire a criminal conviction, research from the University of Southampton has found. The report, "Criminality of former 'Excluded from School'...
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Firemen's health
Fire brigades need to improve their sickness tests according to Bangor University's school of sports and physical education sciences. Many brigades use a simple step test to monitor fire fighters'...
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Living off the land
Following international concern about the impact of climate change, Bangor University's centre for arid zone studies is to investigate the lifestyle of three African communities dependent on communal...
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History for the future
Historians at Teesside University have won Pounds 300,000 from the English funding council's Teaching and Learning Technology Programme to conduct research into new ways of using computer software in...
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Short degrees approved by students and industry
An official survey of Italy's controversial three-year university diploma or short degree courses reveals that students are very satisfied with them despite allegedly poor teaching. Giorgio Alulli,...
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A league table for the sensitive
Professors in Germany would advise their own children to study economics and business studies at the University of Mannheim, and chemistry at the Technical University of Munich, according to a...
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Euro chiefs attend Paris party
MORE THAN 2,000 academics and policy-makers from all corners of Europe will gather in the Sorbonne's marbled halls on Sunday to celebrate the 800th anniversary of Paris University, and to lay the...
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US breaks student record
A record 67 per cent of American high school graduates went on to further or higher education last year, the United States Labor Department has announced. The figure had stuck at about 62 per cent...