As the costs of higher education increase, undergraduates are demanding more for their money - and that includes better accommodation. Harriet Swain reports on how the universities are responding....
In the future, degrees could be ten a penny, while a 'prestigious' PhD might cost a mint,. Pants lined with sensors that detect and respond to changes in the body's temperature have been shown to...
The ability to analyse easy texts comes only after rigorous work on difficult ones. Diane Purkiss explains why Oxford students outperform those bred on a diet of pick 'n' mix. Students, as we all...
Although political radicalism has waned in UK universities since the 1960s, Chris Bunting discovers that some students are far from apathetic about issues of a more global nature. More than a quarter...
From Crocodile Dung to Electrocution (3.45 R4). Last in series on the history of contraception looks to the future. Front Row (7.15 R4). Martin Amis interviewed. Gene Pioneers (8.05 World Service,...
Pick of the week More Victoriana. In the week that marks the centenary of Queen Victoria’s death, BBC Radio 4 starts a substantial season about the events and achievements of her reign, covering a...
Kevin Bales has uncovered a trade in human misery ranging from domestic workers in London to child prostitutes in Bangkok. Anne Sebba reports. Kevin Bales clearly remembers his first encounter with...
This week, the head of the General Medical Council urged the NHS to shed its paternalistic culture. Linden West explains the urgency of the situation. Manchester GP Harold Shipman embarks on an epic...
As traditional politics struggles to cope with changing economic and social demands, Andrew Samuels argues that psychotherapy might offer some inspiration. Politics in many western countries has...
Matthew Parker did not pay much to accumulate his library. But four centuries later, it is going to take £20 million to house it properly. Parker’s library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, was...
Protesting lecturers risk wages Lecturers taking part in the national dispute over pay were told this week that they will not be paid until "normal working" is resumed. Warwick warns of...
Police fire tear gas at demonstrators Police in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, have fired tear gas at 3,000 demonstrators, many of them students, who were demanding the resignation of president...
FINANCIAL TIMES Scientists from Lucent Technologies have found a way to wring more bandwidth from the mobile phone spectrum, increasing the data-carrying capacity of radio signals by a factor of...
Deadline: 01/03/2001
Deadline: 31/01/2001