G8 plans to double traffic in learning
The Group of Eight leading industrialised nations is discussing plans to double the number of its lecturers and students who travel abroad to study and work, as part of a strategy to equip its...
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Students riot over attempts to curb Muslims on council
Students at the University of Jordan have been demonstrating against attempts by the university authorities to prevent Islamic students from controlling the student council. Riot police have been...
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French no longer enough in France
Jack Lang, France's new minister of education, has long-term plans for all students to graduate with a good command of two foreign languages. As a first step he is giving priority to the introduction...
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Dissident Serb academics seek British partnership
Dissident Serbian academics are exploring the possibility of collaboration with universities in the UK. Representatives from the Belgrade-based Alternative Academic Education Network have been in...
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Scots greet web 'tidal wave'
Scottish Knowledge, which exports university and college expertise in education and training, has signed a global e-university alliance with Shell International, to give the company's 75,000...
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Ozone used to clean water
Chemists have devised a way to harness the cleansing properties of ozone to strip pollutants from waste water. A team of experts from the University of Bradford is setting up a plant to test its...
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Victory for dot-com with a conscience
Like most MBA students now, Jenna Beart and Michael Douek dream of starting a dot-com company and making their first million. Unlike most, they also plan to save lives along the way. And as winners...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is by a philosopher sometimes mistaken for a famous playwright: "'What is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and...
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Manna from the English heaven
The Cambridge History of the English Language, Volume 4 1776-1997
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Popular science - the new God by reason of age
Time of Our Lives
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No hurrays for Bollywood
Who Do We Think We Are?
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A leftwards look at the excluded many
Social Exclusion
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Veritable origins or specious?
Defenders of the Truth
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No sight of a new colour-blind century
Oxford Readers
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Making numbers add up to lie detection
Understanding Social Statistics