Don's diary: low birth weight - the legacy
Winter 2001 On the crest of a wave. My study of low birth weight (LBW) in North Wales is complete, finding rates as high as 9.9 per cent in some areas. I want to discover why there are no funded...
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Why I ...think blanket vetting of foreign science students will do more harm than good
Last week's House of Commons foreign affairs committee report concludes that laboratories in universities, research institutes and the National Health Service contain dangerous organisms and material...
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Serve the customer
Universities are just another service industry and must respond to the market, says Roger Waterhouse When I went up to university I knew exactly how things stood. I was 18 and considered myself lucky...
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Funding gap still left to bridge
If upfront top-up fees are on hold, where is the money education still needs? asks Stephen Court Next month the government publishes its ten-year strategy review for higher education. Prime minister...
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Slobo could do us a favour
Milosevic
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Reason to hit at the hitman?
The Saddam Hussein Reader
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Life pales in comparison
Genius
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is froma novel that starts in confusion: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its...
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The spice of life in a new land
Asians in Britain
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The King of Number 10?
War Diaries 1939-1945 - Churchill's Cold War - Churchill
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High-brow diet that tends to repeat
The Veil of Order
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Old flame kindles warmth and revisits dismal ground
The Philip Larkin I Knew
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Laurie Taylor Column
From: The Office of the Vice-Chancellor To: All Members of Academic Staff Dear Colleagues Yes, it is Christmas once more. But as we look forward to the festive pleasures of yuletide we should not...
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Leader: Universities can't widen access on willingness alone
Universities, or at least some of them, have a lot to answer for in the complacent way they addressed the social composition of the student population in the latter years of the 20th century. As far...
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Leader: What good is a boom if languages go bust?
The focus of the government's languages strategy is, rightly, on schools. But the impact will be felt in higher education before long, and it is hard to imagine it being positive. By encouraging...