Flora seeks fans
Ken Bowler's article on the plight of zoology (Opinion, March 16) comes as no surprise to those of us in the plant science community. Bowler correctly surmises that the decline in interest in "whole...
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Parallel lives
An academic and his undergraduate son at the same university offer different perspectives on an issue. This month: exams The Father We are losing a colleague this week, something that always rattles...
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Life in the City of High Intent
Best-selling novelist Fay Weldon talks to a sceptical friend about why her post at Brunel University has turned her into Pollyanna. " Oh, fancy, you a professor! What of? " "Creative writing." "...
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Dr Dia Llemmer
A reader writes: Sir, I have the honour of acting as my university's public orator, an office in which I have celebrated the achievements of many luminaries from the worlds of academe, industry,...
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Signs of life
Is the distinction between nature and culture false because nature evolved to interact in codes? Geoff Watts gets a primer in signals right down to the genetic level. Semiotics is the study of signs...
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Today's news
Quash anti-Semitism, says minister The Government is due today to unveil steps universities must take to stamp out campus anti-Semitism. Phil Woolas, the Communities Minister, , is expected to...
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Today's news
Warning over Islamic extremists operating in universities Race hate laws should be used to crack down on extremist groups whose activities are prompting a rise in anti-Semitism at Britain's...
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Today's news
Fury at US intelligence chief’s Exeter visit Academics at Exeter University have protested against a talk given by Stephen Cambone, a former US intelligence chief accused of condoning abuse in Iraq....
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Studentship Grants
Deadline: 13/06/2007
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Today's news
Oxford setting extra tests for candidates Sixth-formers face new entrance tests to get into Oxford University amid concerns that A levels fail to mark out the brightest candidates. Aptitude tests...
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As Irish eyes looked away
Most of wartime Ireland beat a moral retreat, Brian Girvin discovers.
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a memoir: "Mum doesn't knock, she just whisks open my bedroom door, crosses straight to the curtains,...
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Beyond rationality and towards understanding
The Soulful Science
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Don't be a panda in your bedroom
Mating in Captivity
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A barmy yarn cooked up in leprechaun's kitchen
Unstoppable Brilliance