First impressions
This week we are starting a new competition. Where Final Word gave the coda to well-known books, First Impressions, as the name suggests, will give the opening lines. The following introduction is...
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The Darwin impresario
Marxism's decline has been followed by a link up between evolutionary biology and social science which should produce startling insights into human behaviour, argue John Ashworth and Helena Cronin....
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Reel time
The American Film Institute has relaunched its web site (www.afionline.org) with a new interface and new content including material about the AFI's newly acquired 1912 film Richard III, the oldest...
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A calling to arms
Debbie Raven reports on the struggle to match tne next stage of NVQs with professional needs. National Vocational Qualifications and their Scottish equivalents spark extreme reactions in the world of...
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Fees threat to asylum-seekers
Tough new rules on student asylum seekers could rob colleges of enrolments and thousands of pounds in cash. Admissions tutors are already worried about making up numbers this term because of changes...
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Research councils forced to pay higher overheads
Research councils look set to divert around Pounds 10 million a year from grants for new projects to meet official obligations to increase overhead payments for projects, writes Kam Patel. The Office...
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Sutherland diagnoses crisis of identity
Universities are suffering from a crisis of identity because they refuse to acknowledge diversity within the system, including divergences between their degrees, according to Sir Stewart Sutherland,...
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Firms ignore ideas on innovation
Small and medium-sized firms are not taking advantage of innovative ideas from universities, patents and trade fairs, according to a survey of 1,000 companies. The finding suggests that government...
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Students shift alliances in multiracial poll
A quiet revolution took place during South Africa's student representative council elections held on campuses over the past few weeks. Students shifted party allegiances, voted for bread and butter...
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No brass, no PFI
Simon Targett quotes John McWilliam of Greenwich University as saying that the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals is talking nonsense when it says the Private Finance Initiative is not...
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Anguished over mixed blessings
I have been more conscious this year than in earlier years of some of the difficulties of the admissions system for school-leavers, but I have not become any clearer about the best way forward....
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Immune system teaches software
Computer experts at Aberystwyth are using the human immune system as the model for software that could radically improve computers' capacity for learning. "The immune system is a naturally occurring...
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Students get smart start
The universities of Exeter and York could become cashless institutions - not because of a lack of funding, but thanks to a "smart card" being trialled this academic year. More than 11,000 staff and...
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'Million NVQs' claim queried
The National Council for Vocational Qualifications has been presenting misleading information about the number of NVQs being taken, the author of a new report said this week. Peter Robinson, research...
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Call to lift ban on wildlife trade
The international ban on the trade in endangered wildlife is more damaging to the survival of species than poaching, according to Keith Madders, a member of the Zimbabwe Trust and Africa Resource...