From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Most British employees are satisfied at work even though they are under greater stress than ten years ago, according to research from the University of Warwick Rikkyo University,...
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Higher education appointments
Nottingham Trent University The following have been appointed to the university's board of governors: Richard Bullock , deputy senior partner at Freeth Cartwright solicitors, deputy lieutenant for...
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TV & radio guide - Tuesday
Unearthing Mysteries (11.00 am R4). How big was Alexandria’s Pharos Lighthouse (one of the Seven Wonders of the World)? Aubrey Manning tries to find out from underwater archaeologists and historians...
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Latest UK news
Oxford set for Princeton collaboration Oxford University is set to sign a £100 million deal with Princeton University to develop collaborative research programmes, including supercomputing, climate...
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Latest international news
McKinnon: full fees eroding exchanges Don McKinnon, Commonwealth general secretary, has said that full fees for overseas students are partly to blame for the "erosion of academic exchanges...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Scientists at Cambridge University have come up with the technology and funding to make ultra-cheap microchips from plastic, hastening the day when even the most humble items can be...
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Commonwealth faces new century's challenge
The 14th conference of Commonwealth education ministers , and the parallel symposium and trade fair, are being held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada from -30 November 2000. ...
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TV & radio guide - Monday
Composer of the Week (9.00 am R3 and rest of week) is Heinrich von Biber. Book of the Week (9.45 am R4 and rest of week) is The Letters of Oscar Wilde read by Simon Callow. Work in Progress (10.00 am...
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TV & radio guide - Sunday
5 Live Report (12 noon R5). “Degrees of Uncertainty”. Investigating the growth of “virtual” universities. Music Matters (12.15 R3). Reports from China, including a piano factory and a potential new...
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TV & radio guide - Saturday
The Century Speaks (2.30 R4). “What’s Next.” Last in compilation series from BBC’s oral-history archive speculates about the future. Refugee Tales (4.00 C4). The stories of four refugee families who...
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Why you shouldn't watch Big Brother
Richard Fisher looks back over more than a decade of the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Plato's Republic is the first great work of western political philosophy, and has...
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Supertext: The textbook that changed my life
In the summer of 1984, I was trying to decide what subject to read at university, searching for something a little further off the beaten track than my sixth-form language and literature courses....
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Uneasy? He's here to help
Graduate students in politics, economics, IT and the social sciences all turn to the same man. Martin Ince meets Manuel Castells Manuel Castells may go one better in his analysis of the information...
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Push here to learn more?
Nicky Hayes examines how to measure the impact of science exhibitions. The first World Congress of Science Centres, held in Finland in 1996, was an exhilarating affair. Large-scale demonstrations,...
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Annie goes shopping for a chic new speak
Each of these publications has a catchy French title (almost de rigueur these days?) and makes extensive use of recorded audio material - of good quality in all cases. Otherwise they differ quite...