Hard look at hardship
Your article on the abuse of hardship funds ("Hardship cash funds 'sprees'", July 23) was unbalanced and unfair. Most students who apply for hardship funds do so because of genuine financial...
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Talk of a truce
Perhaps I can take issue with Jack Cohen's statement that Hamas and Islamic Jihad oppose peace with Israel (Letters, July 30). Abdul Aziz al-Rantissi, Hamas' leader after the murder of Sheikh Ahmed...
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Gloves off for 'thinking man's Michael Moore'
The Bush Administration is a joke, guilty of 'crony capitalism' and 'world-class mendacity', but Paul Krugman is not laughing, says Stephen Phillips. Paul Krugman has a day off from his biweekly...
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Can those who lit the flame for democracy carry it?
As the Olympics kick off, Huw Richards looks at the birthplace of the modern state in the last of our series. The Greeks certainly had a word for it - indeed the word for it - since "democracy", like...
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Undercover Laurie: Cap and gown, check. Wallet, check
In the first of a series in which Laurie Taylor goes undercover at university events, he gatecrashes a degree ceremony and leaves with empty pockets. "Is this the queue for the 12.15?" Reading...
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Starter for 10 that could finish off your chances
Mandy Garner took a crack team of students and asked them to rise to the challenge of an admissions exam being roadtested at Cambridge University. Your starter for ten. A solid cube has 12 edges. If...
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Travel tales of the cultural shepherd
Adrian Mourby meets jack of all trades and tour leader Roderick Swanston as part of our intellectual tourism series. "I am a jack of all trades," says Roderick Swanston. "And Master of Arts. My job...
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Nuclear knowledge is disappearing, warns the International Atomic Energy Agency
Brussels, 11 Aug 2004 In its annual report for 2003, published on 9 August, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has expressed its concern at the ageing of the nuclear workforce and the lack...
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IST project to apply 'augmented reality' to industrial maintenance tasks
Brussels, 11 Aug 2004 Augmented reality may sound like a futuristic concept, but for someone carrying out complex industrial repairs or maintenance, the availability of computer generated information...
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Young people at more risk from CJD, warn French researchers
Brussels, 11 Aug 2004 A team of French researchers has found evidence to suggest that young people may be more likely to contract Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), the human form of BSE, than adults....
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Germany's largest research institute rewards nano discovery
Brussels, 11 Aug 2004 The Helmholtz Association of National Research Centres in Germany has awarded its prestigious Erwin Schrödinger Prize for interdisciplinary research to a team of physicists and...
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Seminar on European funding for international collaboration
Brussels, 11 Aug 2004 A seminar on European funding for international collaboration will take place in York, UK, on 17 September. The seminar will demonstrate how funds can be accessed to enable...
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Olympus Mons caldera (Mars) in perspective (link)
Paris, 11 Aug 2004 Perspective view of Olympus Mons caldera This perspective view, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, shows the complex caldera...
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Today's news
Permission to clone human embryos granted Britain's fertility watchdog has, for the first time, given the go-ahead for a team of university scientists to clone human embryos for medical research. The...
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‘Race’, Ethnicity and poverty: a review
Deadline: 10/09/2004