Scholarly screw on sporting life
College presidents and athletics directors in the United States voted last week to tighten already tough academic standards for student athletes, disappointing critics who argued that they...
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Islamic university opens in Tatarstan
Tatarstan, an autonomous republic within the Russian Federation, has acquired its first privately funded higher educational institution -- the Muhammadia Islamic University, based in the capital,...
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Lost science jobs lead to standstill
The appointment of France's first scientific council, the Comite d'Orientation Strategique, to advise the government directly on research policy, was marked by 24-hour closures at four major...
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Few tears shed for privatiser
Indian education minister Arjun Singh, who started the process of privatisation of higher education, has quit, creating a political crisis for the ruling Congress party. Few tears are being shed for...
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A credit to the bank
Labor Markets and Social Policy in Central and Eastern Europe
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A hot little sister
Venus
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Genial hosts and unwanted guests
Encyclopaedia of Virology
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Guerrillas in the mists of time
War in the Shadows
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Labour disputes
The History of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
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Last and first man of vision
While reading this book, I was continually hypnotised -- that is scarcely too strong a word -- by the penetrating gaze from Howard Coster's portrait on the jacket. I found myself trying to bridge the...
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Lawrence's Mexican hat'
The Visionary D. H. Lawrence
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Masterpieces and the master race
The Rape of Europa
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Tales of an unknown cow
The Oxford Medical Companion
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The beneficiaries of an ill will
Genetic Variation and Human Disease
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a chemist: ". . . This cell belongs to a brain, and it is my brain, the brain of the me who is writing; and the cell in question, and within it the atom in question...