Scottish Enterprise has unveiled a Pounds 160 million action plan to establish Scotland as a leading "learning nation", writes Olga Wojtas. The Scottish Enterprise Network aims to ensure that 60 per...
Four years ago American scientist Larry Hench came to work in London. Julia Hinde spoke to him about the pros and cons of life in the UK Moving to London was one of the best things American academic...
A new experiment should help to give physics the answer to the age-old question of why matter exists. Alison Goddard reports Why does matter exist? The question has dogged physics for decades....
Art and physics appear unlikely partners, but a collaboration between the two is set to provide a glimpse of an unseen world In the 19th century the invention of photography brought dramatic...
Fish that change sex because of marine pollution have become a focus of environmental concern, but British and Italian scientists have become award-winners by pointing out that the organic chlorine...
(Photograph) - Students take part in a basic Arabic for beginners class at the Pakistani Centre, University of Leeds. The University's Islamic Studies "pathway to higher education" courses won the...
Educationists and politicians constantly emphasise the need for lifelong learning, but they generally take a narrow view of life which concentrates on work. "There is a repressive concept, that the...
Fraud and mismanagement at the European Commission have tainted the Leonardo project, but it deserves to succeed, writes Sue Waddington As the European Commission considered the implications of the...
Anger fuelling Tuesday's strike action by the Association of University Teachers will not be lessened by the draft conclusions of the Bett review (pages 1, 6 and 7). If 3.5 per cent seems inadequate...
Science cannot be censored like novels or plays. But Index on Censorship's contributors (pages 22-23) articulate widespread concern about the power of two groups, funders and peer reviewers. They...
Wang Gungwu argues that the state has encouraged youth to reclaim the mantle of Peking University radicalism Few universities just 100 years old can claim a major contribution to their country's...
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a bookfrom its opening sentence, is from a novel written after a winterspent in Africa: "'We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of the Chiefs of...
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