To excel, simply remove red tape
If British universities want to compete with the US they should overhaul their administrative practices, free academics from paperwork and abandon the honours system, argues Jeffrey Henderson. Why is...
If British universities want to compete with the US they should overhaul their administrative practices, free academics from paperwork and abandon the honours system, argues Jeffrey Henderson. Why is...
Elspeth Huxley
Source: Alamy Simon Pratt takes a closer look at the elite graduate schools and specialists excluded from the World University RankingsUniversity rankings can have far-reaching influence, and a...
Is the Royal Society elitist? Absolutely, but that is its purpose. On the eve of an inquiry into its merit, Geoff Watts looks at how it is trying to change with the times. Is the Royal Society...
Dinosaurs of the Air
Visions of the Future
Goodness Beyond Virtue
Brendan Simms pierces the truth about Hitler's favourite architect. Virtually all of the Nazi leadership arraigned before the international tribunal in Nuremberg in 1946 disclaimed any guilt and...
Otto Hahn
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY. 'Beyond the Genome', Birmingham July 16-20. Details www.iubmb2000.org Is Craig Venter's style of privately funded science the way...
Opus Dei encourages members to live like saints and counts the pope among its supporters, but critics call it manipulative and pernicious. Paul Bompard reports John Roche teaches history of physics...
The BBC has hired the University of Leeds to help train its managers in digital media. Leeds has developed an MA in media management, to be taught partly over the internet, designed to help middle-...
The Australian government has attacked universities for failing to swell the ranks of women in executive positions. Federal education minister Amanda Vanstone said that although women made up 46 per...
Belief in genetics hype is Watson's problem, says Tom Shakespeare Max Delbruck, the pioneer of 1930s genetics, inspired James Watson to abandon ornithology for molecular biology and later labelled...
History will remain a popular choice among students, says William Rubinstein, because it is a soft option. Most of today's students are the first from their families to have gone to any university;...