Real reform must mean a partnership of equals
Further education is vital to increasing both participation and quality in higher education, argues Colin Flint When you clear an office after 16 years, the experience can be one of reliving recent...
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Harry Kroto
The lack of toys that encourage our kids to develop good hand-eye coordination or to understand how things work might help explain why our railways are in such a parlous state It's the season of...
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A song for Santa
A college lecturer in Scotland has become a best-selling musician after recording an album of Santa's favourite songs. Gordon Campbell, an accountancy lecturer at Glasgow's Stow College, compiled...
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Well connected
He might not be the next director of the London School of Economics but, as consolation prizes go, Mervyn King must be counting his blessings. Tipped as the next director of the LSE, Professor King...
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Natural mover
Fame Academy winner David Sneddon this week vowed to go to university if his music dream turned sour. The 24-year-old former busker said: "After a year, if it all fails, I'll go to university and...
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Degrees of separation
An Italian mafia boss has discovered that crime has to pay after being refused a discount on his two sons' tuition fees. Bernardo Provenzano, Italy's most wanted criminal, inquired about getting...
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Don's diary: low birth weight - the legacy
Winter 2001 On the crest of a wave. My study of low birth weight (LBW) in North Wales is complete, finding rates as high as 9.9 per cent in some areas. I want to discover why there are no funded...
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Why I ...think blanket vetting of foreign science students will do more harm than good
Last week's House of Commons foreign affairs committee report concludes that laboratories in universities, research institutes and the National Health Service contain dangerous organisms and material...
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Serve the customer
Universities are just another service industry and must respond to the market, says Roger Waterhouse When I went up to university I knew exactly how things stood. I was 18 and considered myself lucky...
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Funding gap still left to bridge
If upfront top-up fees are on hold, where is the money education still needs? asks Stephen Court Next month the government publishes its ten-year strategy review for higher education. Prime minister...
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Slobo could do us a favour
Milosevic
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Reason to hit at the hitman?
The Saddam Hussein Reader
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Life pales in comparison
Genius
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is froma novel that starts in confusion: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its...
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The spice of life in a new land
Asians in Britain