Quality equaliser
Technology facilitates long-distance collaboration between researchers, reducing the dominance of elite institutions and allowing students access to top-level data. Olga Wojtas reports Abertay Dundee...
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Echoes from the cradle of dissent
Andrew Petersen traces the central role Iraq has historically played in Islamic Arab culture and its bearing on the current disastrous situation. Most people in the West, including many of our...
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Material girl no more...
Madonna, like many people in the West, is seeking alternative spiritual sources to give meaning to life. Terry Eagleton ponders the nature of a very modern quest Why is our culture awash with Tarot...
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Academe risks losing talent
Postdocs are 'the forgotten' in UK universities, lacking adequate support and advice, reports Anthea Lipsett. Universities risk losing the cream of young British research talent to industry and...
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Visionary initiative comes under threat of closure in wake of funding debacle
Seven years ago, a visionary campus opened in the heart of one of the UK's most sparsely populated and deprived areas. The Crichton University Campus in Dumfries, housed in a former psychiatric...
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Today's news
Cambridge halfway to £1bn fundraising target Cambridge University announced today that it has raised half a billion pounds in a major fundraising drive to reduce its dependence on government grants....
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Latest research news
Afternoon naps cut risk of dying from heart attack by up to 64% Taking a siesta could significantly cut the chance of dying from a heart attack, a major study has found. Researchers who examined more...
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Today's news
Oxford to follow Cambridge's lead by appointing City financier Oxford University is to follow the lead of Cambridge and appoint a City financier to manage nearly a billion pounds worth of its assets...
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Today's news
Peace prize winner considers Dhaka politics Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel peace prize winner, has announced he will consider starting a new political party in response to public pressure for him to...
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Paul Instrument Fund
Deadline: 20/04/2007
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Today's news
Blair to give £1 for every £2 gift to universities Universities will be encouraged to build up funds of billions of pounds from former students and philanthropists under plans to be unveiled by Tony...
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Overdue hearing for a minority voice
The Roma in Romanian History
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Will that defence stand?
The Handbook of Human Rights Law
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Skeleton of legal corpus
Understanding Medical Law
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by an academic who served as an adviser to several US presidents: "Wealth is not without its...