Higher Channels
You don’t have to be a dendrophile to enjoy BBC2’s Meetings with Remarkable Trees series; history comes into it, too. This week, two special trees get their ten-minutes’ worth: on Friday (9.50; 10.20...
You don’t have to be a dendrophile to enjoy BBC2’s Meetings with Remarkable Trees series; history comes into it, too. This week, two special trees get their ten-minutes’ worth: on Friday (9.50; 10.20...

Inside this week's THES is our 28-page autumn Textbook Guide.The featured subjects are: politics languages and linguistics psychology and psychiatry mathematics and physics engineering Here online...
New chairman for funding council David Young, deputy chairman of the John Lewis Partnership and a former treasurer of the Open University, will chair the Higher Education Funding Council for England...
Approval for $1bn Indian project An Indian cabinet committee has approved a $1 billion project to set up “top class” institutions in the country, on the lines of the Indian institutes of technology....
FINANCIAL TIMES Scientists at the University of Trento in Italy describe how they have discovered a way to draw something approaching a laser-like emission from silicon Researchers from the...
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Routes of English (9.00 am R4). New series of Melvyn Bragg’s survey of spoken English. This week, "Pitmatic", the dialect of Northumberland’s pit villages, and not to be confused with "Geordie"....
Putin shows largesse Russian president Vladimir Putin doubled the size of presidential scholarships for promising students in an impromptu announcement during a visit to Moscow's Bauman State...
ÂŁ252m boost for genomics and technology Trade and industry secretary Stephen Byers earmarked ÂŁ252 million today for research in genomics, e-science and basic technology over three years....
FINANCIAL TIMES John Kay reveals the confused power structure that mires Oxford University in frustrating muddles and indecision. Della Bradshaw and Jim Kelly say that Oxford overcame controversy to...
Turning the Tide (11.00 am R4). This week, environmental economist John Bowers argues that coastal protection for rural areas is a waste of money. Thinking Allowed (4.00 R4). Laurie Taylor talks with...
Sex firewall prompts name change Philadelphia’s Beaver College is to rename itself Arcadia University next July after discovering that internet systems designed to screen out sexually...
ÂŁ1 billion boost for UK colleges Education secretary David Blunkett has announced a ÂŁ1 billion fillip for UK further education colleges to promote centres of excellence in vocational...
THE GUARDIAN Leaders of sections of the Iranian national student movement, which was largely responsible for Mohammad Khatami's rise to power, have declared his presidency a failure and are vowing to...