Brussels, 05 Aug 2004 The European Commission's Information Society DG has published a call for tenders to carry out a study into risk preparedness in business in the field of network and information...
Paris, 05 Aug 2004 Perspective view of scarp around Olympus Mons These images from ESA's Mars Express show the western flank of the shield volcano Olympus Mons in the Tharsis region of the western...
Hampton Court
Critical Mass
Deep Simplicity
The Origins of World War I - Castles of Steel - The Great War - The First World War - Trench Art
The Burning Tigris
This week's competition, in which you must identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel about an ambitious Russian civil servant: "Through the gate of a hostelry in a provincial capital...
The Pig-Faced Lady of Manchester Square and Other Medical Marvels
The English Novel
Islam without Fear
The Charitable Crescent
Maureen @ popp.ac.uk Dear Professor Lapping Thank you for ringing from Gascony. It was a bit difficult to hear what you were saying. There was a French person who kept interrupting to ask for more...
While the QAA may have eliminated the worst 10 per cent of practice, it has got rid of the wonderful 10 per cent, too Many years ago, I spent a happy couple of years helping with a new edition of the...
Four years after the furore over her rejection by Oxford University and subsequent departure to Harvard, Laura Spence still arouses strong passions in British higher education. Whether she was the...