Able minds incarcerated by traditional attitudes
What makes someone disabled - society or their own bodies? Tom Shakespeare reports on a radical academic subject, while Sarah Earle (below) argues that there is still one taboo for universities...
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Out of a barren cradle
Romanian orphans adopted by UK families have made remarkable progress, despite an appalling start in life. Michael Rutter argues that this sheds new light on child development and raises questions...
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Sex and the disabled student
More and more disabled people are entering higher education, so many, in fact, that some universities have introduced "personal assistant" schemes to provide disabled students with up to 24 hours of...
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Cassandra in Euroland
Ex-Thatcher guru Patrick Minford tells Kam Patel why we should not swap our pounds for euros and why new Labour are such good Tories. To have been a raging free-marketeer in Liverpool in the mid-...
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Atom smashing in the world's greatest machine
It houses a scientific instrument longer than London's Circle Line, and employs some of the brightest physicists on the planet. Ayala Ochert reports from Cern - where the mission is to discover the...
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Academic tale of audit overload
Huw Richards on the Political Studies Association conference ACCOUNTABILITY is one of the buzzwords of the 1990s, widely acknowledged as a good thing. But you can have too much of a good thing,...
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Wheeler dealing of Tsar Boris
Huw Richards on the Political Studies Association conference BORIS Yeltsin's recent sacking of his government was spectacular and unexpected but fits logically into the pattern of events since he...
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Hundred years war
(Photograph) - Hooded students in Guatemala City carry a float in a parade that has been held every April for 100 years. It is traditionally part sophisticated political protest and a larger part...
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A Luciano Nezzo painting
(Photograph) - Mouth piece: Luciano Nezzo's painting of a surgeon holding a dental key behind his back is part of an exhibition of 'Needles in Medical History' at the Wellcome Trust's History of...
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Where there's muck there's brass
(Photograph) - How the Scottish Agricultural College makes millions from services to the country's farmers. Twelve pages of Research news, grants and jobs, pages R1 R12
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Fact File
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings reveal that: * 7.7 per cent of male first-degree students obtained first-class degrees. * 6.3 per cent of female first-degree students obtained first...
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Hunting countries gather most guns
COUNTRIES with a hunting tradition have the highest rates of gun ownership in Europe, but this does not necessarily lead to higher crime rates, Leicester University research has found. An analysis of...
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Children Act 'fails youngsters leaving care'
THE LAW fails to protect young people when they leave care, according to the first-ever national overview of leaving care across England and Wales. In Young People Leaving Care: Life After the...
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Aerosol aids search for cystic fibrosis cure
Medical scientists at Dundee University are working with colleagues at the Chinese University of Hong Kong to tackle cystic fibrosis, the most common fatal inherited disease in Western Europe. The...
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Couch potatoes switch on to courses
BEING a couch potato can lead to higher education, according to the BBC. BBC Education has commissioned John Storan, director of South Bank University's continuing education centre, to investigate...