Letter: Get the equality argument right
Baroness Blackstone points out that young people from poorer backgrounds do not pay tuition fees, implying that there is, therefore, no reason for them to be deterred from entering higher education...
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TV & Radio guide - Friday
Zero Gravity (11.00 am R4). The creative potential of weightlessness, with a group of Moscow-based dancers, acrobats and filmmakers. Sounds like the kind of programme that would look better with...
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Higher Channels
"It starts with good intentions, then we all end up in a huge room sitting on golden chairs listening to boring speeches." This could be said of quite a few grand projects, but Nick Fraser is in fact...
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Peace is a dangerous business
Can Northern Ireland find peace? Chris Gibson, pro-chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast, and new chairman of the country's Civic Forum, shares his insights with Anne McHardy. As Bill Clinton...
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The future of history is a cyber map
Andrew Prescott explains how new technology is making a massive local history archive available to the public. Few commemorative projects have proved as long-lasting or monumental as the Victoria...
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A Victorian guide to checking out in style
Those Victorians really knew how to say goodbye, says James Stevens Curl, as he unearths Victorian attitudes to death in the run up to next month's centenary of Queen Victoria's demise. People are...
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Why Tate went to the dogs
With the award of its annual Turner prize, the Tate is back in the firing line, but the gallery is not afraid of a little criticism, as Kate Worsley reports. Imagine picking up one of Tate &...
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Grey areas on the blacklist
The received wisdom is not the whole story, writes Brian Josephson.Robert Park’s book is basically an attack on dubious science, which he calls “voodoo science”. Categories discussed include: claimed...
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Latest UK news
Students anxious over fee plans Students at Britain’s leading universities are to meet vice-chancellors today to press the case against higher tuition fees. Hamish Common, president of...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Colin Lucas, vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, writes that Oxford has made decision-making clearer and more efficient, has developed academic partnerships and is a pioneer...
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Latest international news
Commonwealth plans to simplify assessments An initiative to simplify qualification and assessment frameworks across the Commonwealth’s 54 member states is being discussed by officials and...
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Non-Clinical Research Fellowship
Deadline: 29/12/2000
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TV & radio guide - Thursday
Routes of English (9.00 am R4). The dialect of Derry/Londonderry. Crossing Continents (11.00 am R4). Bangladesh’s eunuchs The Material World (4.30 R4). Food scientists Andy Taylor and Don Mottram on...
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Higher education appointments
City University, London Iqbal Owadally , formerly a PhD student, has been appointed lecturer in actuarial science; Jaap Spreeuw has qualified as actuary with the Dutch Actuarial Society. Laura...
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Latest international news
Commonwealth scholarships to increase Commonwealth education ministers are to discuss increasing the number of students on the organisation’s mobility scholarship scheme by 50 per cent by 2003. A...