Comrades try to get Prudence to wear more red
Socialism has had setbacks in the 25 years since young leftwinger Gordon Brown edited The Red Paper on Scotland . Bob Tait joined a gathering to discuss the way forward. It was, on the face of it, an...
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I'd like one doner kebab and a PhD to takeaway
You can call a room above a kebab shop a university and make millions, but such degree mills harm UK higher education, says Matthew Chapman. It is a little known fact that Green Lanes in a quiet...
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Higher Channels
Metamorpheus (Sunday 8.15 BBC2) is a rarity that’s welcome for more than one reason. Firstly, it’s concerned with Greek mythology, a subject that doesn’t surface much on television these days outside...
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Sons of soil left to wither on the vine
Agriculture in Britain has sunk to a nadir last seen during the Great Depression. Farmers were once the bedrock of British society and a powerful voice in the land, but who now cares what becomes of...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Researchers at the University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University have reported that they have altered the flow of electricity through tiny carbon nanotubes by...
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Latest international news
New York institute gets $130m gift An anonymous donor has given $130 million to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, to build a biotechnology research building and an electronic media...
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Latest UK news
Clinton visits Warwick Bill Clinton, president of the United States, visits the University of Warwick today to deliver a speech on globalisation. The university has had to provide parking space for...
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PhD Studentship Award
Deadline: 08/02/2001
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Research Fellowships
Deadline: 04/03/2002
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Daily TV & radio guide - Thursday
Routes of English (9.00 am R4). London Jamaican. Melvyn Bragg consults Linton Kwesi Johnson and people on the streets of Brixton. » Routes of English Crossing Continents (11.00 am R4). Swedes under...
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Latest international news
Sylvan Learning buys Chilean stake Sylvan Learning Systems Inc, which in 1999 bought a controlling interest in the European University of Madrid, will pay $21 million for 60 per cent of a Chilean...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Unwanted Christmas gifts are economically inefficient. John Kay examines US academic Joel Waldford's super-rational view of Christmas. THE GUARDIAN Thirty-six Scottish pupils may...
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Latest UK news
Degrees don't make tycoons A university education does not help in the property market, a new survey suggests. Fourteen of the 20 tycoons on "The UK Property Rich List", published in the...
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Daily TV & radio guide - Wednesday
A Short History of Darkness (3.45 R4). Final 15-minute exploration embraces dark matter, fears of the dark, etc. With new poems by Colette Bryce and Ruth Padel. Thinking Allowed (4.00 R4). Laurie...
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Latest international news
Turkmenistan president doubles student grants President Saparmyrat Niyazov of Turkmenistan has doubled all student grants in honour of the fifth anniversary of his country’s neutrality.&...