Apocalypse now?
Bruce Hoffman fears that the Tokyo gas attack could herald the start of a lethal era of religious terrorism. Last month's deadly nerve gas attack on the Tokyo underground marks an historical...
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The perpetual outsider
Anita Desai's latest novel is the first she has written out of India. Andrew Robinson went to meet her. Anita Desai is a novelist read in several languages besides English, a winner of literary...
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Meesha Nehru
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Bonnie mots
Olga Wojtas reports on the task to digitise Auld Scots. The impact of technology has now reached medieval Scots. For almost 80 years, editors of the monumental Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue...
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Lord Runciman at the Royal Society
(Photograph) - Eminence grise: Darwin loitered in the background as Lord Runciman (above), fellow of the British Academy, and John Maynard Smith (below), fellow of the Royal Society, hosted a joint...
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Skin survives test of time
The skin properties of a man discovered in an Alpine glacier in 1991 have remained virtually intact for five millennia, Bradford University pharmacists have discovered. The scientists have examined...
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Sciences make their mark
Industry in the former East Germany is struggling, unemployment has rocketed and the social fabric is stretched to breaking point - but Bonn can claim that the costly and painful measures imposed on...
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Russians count brains drained
Russia's counter-intelligence service is monitoring the extent of the academic brain drain just as the Academy of Sciences is pleading with government to recognise its financial crisis. The lack of...
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Try to see it my way
Elona Kibler believes that the new animosity between blacks and Jews can be attributed partly to the way in which American Jewry has changed. Where once Jews were seen as an oppressed minority - like...
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Student loans fraud inquiry
The Serious Fraud Office has been called in by New Zealand's education ministry to investigate the theft of up to NZ$750,000 (Pounds 306,000) in student loans. The referral came after preliminary...
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`I think we went too fast'
"I think we went too fast," says Jordi Berrio, vice rector of academic affairs at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. This modern campus university of 34,000 students was one of the first to...
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Publish and be crammed
Hugh Willmott believes that under the guise of improving efficiency the research assessment exercise has produced a Kafkaesque nonsense of product degradation. "Well, I've already got my four (...
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Open, improving and accountable
Britain's university research assessments provide a once-in-four-years snapshot of its academic research endeavour, a picture open for the world to see. The 1996 results show both the level of...
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Academics win 18 per cent rise
Academics at four Australian universities have won pay rises of up to 18 per cent and most of the other 32 public tertiary institutions are expected to reach salary agreements with the higher...
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MIT and MUST in joint thrust
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has agreed to form a partnership with the Malaysia University of Science and Technology, the country's proposed new private university, when it opens its...