Beckett pulls no science punches
Scientists bemoaned the continuing dearth of new government money for science at the British Association's meeting in Leeds this week. This was despite an assurance from Margaret Beckett, president...
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US wages a books war
An association representing 90 per cent of university and college bookshops in the United States has sued Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press for charging them higher wholesale...
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Moving target: Colin Blakemore
(Photograph) - Moving target: Colin Blakemore, the incoming president of the British Association and for years the target of animal rights activists who oppose his experiments with animals, this week...
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Dean rehashed views on HIV
A PROFESSOR at City University has apologised in a journal for the way in which he used material from 14 academic papers in one review article. The apology, by Steven Haberman, professor of actuarial...
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The CAP doesn't fit environment
Agricultural policy, smart salmon and sex-change chickens at the British Association's annual festival of science in Leeds Advisers to the European Commission's Directorate on Environment have warned...
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Stay-ahead students warm to technology fees
More than half of all public universities, a third of public two-year community colleges and a fifth of private colleges in the United States charged technology fees to students last year. Many have...
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Welsh fear high-speed lockout
Academics at geographically remote institutions could be the losers in the forthcoming upgrade of the SuperJANET network, which will provide faster connections at 34 to 155 megabits per second (Mbps...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a novel that, in spite of its title, is far from Jamesian: "'They made a...
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Speaking Volumes: Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time
Martin Cave on Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time. The summer creates space for self-indulgence, and my almost annual indulgence is to reread not some influential work on economics, but...
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Images for the cognoscenti
Indian Art and Connoisseurship
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Blood and guts, not ribbons or braid
Time to Kill
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Married and marginalised
The Muslim Family
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Giving voice to change
Broken Silence
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Shadowy corners in the Hall of fame
Radclyffe Hall
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Pauline inversion
Love Between Women