Question of viability
Derek Law accuses me of the "wilful conflation" of open-access journals with online repositories (Letters, January 6). It seems improbable in the long term that universities and individual...
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Handbooks from hell
Aargh - handbooks. They're everywhere! Handbooks for tutors, for exams, for students, for quality, for training, for new staff, old staff, no staff. Who invented them? Where did they come from? And...
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One-way ticket just isn't an option
A core of African scholars are ditching the convenience of the West to return home. Karen MacGregor reports In 1996 after violent clashes with students and staff at the University of Ahmadu Bello -...
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Welcome to Muncie: a city of 66,000 all-American laboratory rats
In 1929, a small Midwest community was the subject of a seminal survey. Stephen Phillips looks at how it became Everytown USA A post-industrial city roughly the size of High Wycombe in the...
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Campus curiosities 18
In the foyer of Luton University's Postgraduate School stands the statue of a killer. The effigy in Putteridge Bury, a mansion house on the outskirts of the town, is of an Egyptian stag that laid low...
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The red king is dead, long live the king
John Gray says neocons should take note of philosopher and historian Leszek Kolakowski, who warns against Marxist utopian fantasies As a political project, Marxism has ceased to matter. The mass...
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Earthly ideal is a most niggling dream
John Gray says neocons should take note of philosopher and historian Leszek Kolakowski, who warns against Marxist utopian fantasies The master died 122 years ago. He lived in the age of steam; never...
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Outdoor life with a growing legacy
Forestry training has branched out into new ways of seeing the woods and the trees. Jessie Anderson reports From the windows of his cottage in the Cumbrian village of Calthwaite, 63-year-old Jim...
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Workshops Shaping the European Research Area in the field of Information and Communications Technology
Brussels, 11 Jan 2006 Best practice in multi-national programme collaboration (18 Jan. 2006, Cologne) Portals for information dissemination and taxonomies for classification (20-21 Feb. 2006,...
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Cryo EM Microscope Captures First Images of HIV Virus in 3D 'Tomograms'
Brussels, 11 Jan 2006 Although it is the subject of intense research, no clear picture of what the HIV virus actually looks like was available until now. Research led by Professor Stephen Fuller from...
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Einstein was right, at least to four parts in ten million
Brussels, 11 Jan 2006 The most famous equation in all of science, E=mc2, appears to be broadly accurate, more than a century after Einstein published his special theory of relativity in 1905....
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Biotech Crops Continue to Soar in 10 Year of Commercialization, says EuropaBio
Brussels, 11 Jan 2006 The number of hectares planted with biotech crops worldwide increased by 9.0 million hectares (22 million acres) in 2005. This is according to new figures published today by...
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Today's news
University pay row threatens fee policy Universities are facing a year of pay strikes that could plunge the Government's flagship top-up fees policy into chaos. Academics are demanding at least one...
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Society Awards: Research
Deadline: 01/03/2006