Buddy, can you spare a fee?
Fees to pay or not to pay? Stephen Romer sounds a note of warning on the US experience Influential parties in United Kingdom higher education are beginning to think the unthinkable: students will...
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Regents' shot echoes
The story of affirmative action at the University of California is still continuing. The shot fired by the embattled farmers of the American Revolution was heard round the world. The Board of Regents...
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The chattering sexes
All-male and all-female groups converse differently. While women's voices combine and overlap, men take it in turns to hold court. Jennifer Coates explains Having friends is something most of us take...
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The Bible bashers
Keith Whitelam explains to Simon Targett that the Jewish version of the Old Testament is a fiction designed to legitimise Israel and that the history of the Palestinian people has been silenced....
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A reluctant guru on matters between the ears
Howard Gardner talks to John Davies about his theory of human intelligence and his plans to write a book about unusual achievers If Howard Gardner is an authority on intelligence, he sometimes seems...
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Risk-takers show the way
Post-compulsory education from soup to nuts: not a new idea (what is?) but one which De Montfort University has set about realising with uncommon gusto (page 6). The move, pursued stealthily through...
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Freeze damages student halls
The record sub-zero temperatures which made Glasgow colder than Moscow have disrupted the start of term for hundreds of students and caused thousands of pounds worth of damage. Round the clock work...
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Sussex listed for Schindler grant
American film director Steven Spielberg has pledged $100,000 of the profits from his epic Holocaust movie Schindler's List to a new centre of German-Jewish studies at Sussex University. Spielberg...
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Schizoid strings attached
Schizophrenia may develop earlier and earlier as it passes down the generations. The discovery is yet another consequence of the discovery several years ago of a significant type of genetic defect -...
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Dining cements dynasties
The increasing tendency to eat out is not undermining family meals - families are eating out together. Alan Warde, reader in sociology at Lancaster University, has been investigating the eating...
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Literary odyssey of Russian
Research is something of a heroic activity in Russia, according to Ludmila Rzhanskaya of the Gorkii Institute of World Literature in Moscow. Many research institutes have closed in the past five or...
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Common core for subject must be resisted
Geography must resist pressures for a common core curriculum in higher education, according to Michael Bradford, senior lecturer at Manchester University. Dr Bradford said that a national curriculum...
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Sign of the times
(Photograph) - Sign of the times: Strathclyde University research student Neil McInroy has been investigating the impact of urban change on local communities. Although local people feel that streets...
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Innovation science gets cash injection
Australian higher education will be one of the major beneficiaries of a federal government scheme to boost national innovation developments. Under plans announced by Australian prime minister Paul...