(Photograph) - Fab fabrics: The work of leading artists and designers using new technology to produce unusual textiles is featured in an exhibition "New Tech Styles" at Nottingham Trent University's...
Canada and Spain may have kissed and made up, but the future of the North Atlantic fishing industry remains in the balance because the 200-mile zone system enshrined in current international law...
The West may believe that its concept of democracy should be applied universally but many in East Asia insist on an alternative model. Michael Leifer reports. When the Cold War ended the ideological...
John Davies meets Pat Easterling, Cambridge's first female regius professor of Greek. It is hard to find a bad word said about Patricia Easterling. The newly appointed regius professor of Greek at...
David Edmonds on the campaign to outlaw affirmative action in the US. James Meredith wanted to study at his local state university. But when he sought to enrol there in 1962, President John F....
Each time the world loses one of its tongues it may also be losing a unique insight into the structure of the human brain. David Charter reports Waimiri-Atroari is a language used exclusively by 500...
Simon Targett meets the psycholinguist seducing the public with talk of occipital lobes, Steven Pinker (below) Syntax, inflectional morphology, diphthongs, the cerebral cortex and the occipital lobe...
While simultaneously on the phone to Chicago and trying to find a book on his desk, the man - who was a total stranger to me -asked: "Are you interested in the history of European cities from the...
Not for the first time, I have been musing ruefully on the apparently unavoidable tension that exists between seeking to inform colleagues about what is happening to their institution and why, and...
Sunday. Early start; must get to grips with the 12-inch pile of research funding applications. First meeting of the newly constituted South and West NHS research and development committee tomorrow....
Gareth Williams decodes the latest OECD education statistics which hint at UK higher education cuts According to a news release from David Blunkett the latest volume of Organisation for Economic Co-...
Being cornered in one of the darker corridors of the LSE by a post-modern sociologist cannot be a very pleasant experience. But one can only surmise that this must be the reason for John Ashworth's...
As one of the "innocents" referred to in "innocents in the research jungle" (Brian Everett, THES, March 31), I would like to suggest that the author used the wrong merger of nursing college with...
The Technology Foresight Programme is only a stage in a debate which must widen on how science's role in society can best be developed, says George Poste Government desires to develop science and...
Dr Goodhart is correct in identifying the increase in the female entry at Oxford and Cambridge as a factor in the decline of female academic performance since the early 1970s. Another factor is a...