Education, though not higher education, looks set to top the political agenda in Britain in 2001. The year will almost certainly bring a general election in which schools rather than colleges will be...
John Barrow believes the public needs to know more about science - which is why he's published ten books on the subject and in March will deliver one of this year's Darwin College lectures....
George Soros is giving hope to refugees from an oppressive regime. Maureen Aung-Thwin discusses the aims of the philanthropist. People are intrigued that the foundation network created by Hungarian-...
British children love computer games, but they should also be learning to understand the technologies that drive them. Computers are almost ubiquitous: cars, mobile phones and even toasters are...
Poverty and depression left Peter Beresford a virtual prisoner in his own home. But he turned the tables when he used his experience to found a user-led research centre. It was 14 years ago that a...
The Poet and the Astronaut (11.00 am R4). Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis and her cousin Joe Tanner, who inspired her poem Zero Gravity (featured in a BBC2 programme in July 1999). Belief (7.00 R3). Last in...
Pick of the week Jonathan Meades brings BBC2's Victorian season to a close with the enjoyably pugnacious Victoria Died in 1901 but is Still Alive Today (Sunday 9.45). The programme is mainly about...
University applications drop Confidential preliminary totals from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service show that on 20 November 2000 the number of application forms received was about 6,...
Pay dispute prompts exam boycott Lecturers at the University of Zambia have blocked end of semester examinations in a dispute over a 100 per cent pay demand, despite a promise of rapid negotiations...
GUARDIAN Former maths teacher - and teaching union head - John Dunford responds to a survey in which children depicted maths teachers as lonely, bald and unstylish. INDEPENDENT An economist...
The X File (11.30 am R4). Alex Cox on film censorship’s history and the first "X certificates" in 1951. Belief (7.00 R3). Joan Bakewell interviews John Bowker, theology professor. Gold...
Education minister regains control of universities Danish minister for education Margrethe Vestager has regained responsibility for the country’s universities from the research ministry. The research...
Chemicals found in farmed salmon Research by a Surrey University toxicologist has found worrying levels of potentially dangerous chemicals in farmed salmon. Miriam Jacobs traced the contamination by...
FINANCIAL TIMES Academics gave a mixed response yesterday to the government's offer of extra money to retain the United Kingdom's star researchers and encourage high-flyers from abroad to...
Stealing the Glory: The Conquest of the North Pole (11.00 am R4). About the Black explorer Matthew Henson. Call My Bluff (12.30 BBC2). What’s Susan Greenfield doing here? Animal Sanctuary (7.30 BBC1...