So what are they for? 2
Andrew Oswald's view that universities are not primarily places for students will bewilder funding councils, most academics and the hordes of young people on campuses who are wandering around under...
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Harassed, pulled every which way, but committed to her workers
Maggie Pearson has to turn the NHS, the third largest workforce in the world, into a learning organisation. She spoke to Claire Sanders Maggie Pearson's job is best seen as one long balancing act....
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Invitations for gifted cousins
Mandy Garner meets an organiser of a literary festival with ambitious goals. Michael Schmidt is a bit of an internationalist. Born in Mexico, he has been running Carcanet press, the literary...
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A 5-1 win and the islands are theirs
Football, foot-and-mouth and the Falklands - English-Argentine relations have been rife with conflict for 35 years. Klaus Dodds takes a look at foul play on and off the pitch. At 12.30pm today,...
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Business in bad brains
Are adolescents really 'emotionally incontinent' or is the troubled teenager more a figment of the marketing manager's mind? Jerome Burne reports. It has always been a topic of much frustration to...
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Make poetry a friend not a foe
Poetry has fallen victim to a culture that dismisses anything 'difficult' as elitist. But students should delight in the difficult - it can be exciting, argues Ruth Padel. "We are not interested,"...
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In theory, a new play on words
'Theory' is not an obvious candidate for theatrical treatment, but playwright Steve Waters argues that the philosophical musings of Bachelard and Barthes are the stuff of everyday life. Accounts of...
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The career of a cancer
Perutz prizewinning essayist Collette Tourlamain introduces the fatal Pap. Meet Pap. He is a virus (human papillomavirus type 16 to give him his full name), a small circle of DNA with a protein coat...
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No refuge for racists within the academy
Geoffrey Sampson's views are irresponsible and discredited and unworthy of the defence of academic freedom or free speech, says Ian McDonald One year ago, race riots swept across Northwest England....
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Libidinous hero puts passion into history
Michael Winstanley takes an unexpected trip down memory lane and stumbles across the joy of discovery "Hiya." The student breezed into my room. It was 5.30pm on a Friday and I was winding up another...
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No way to treat valuable citizens
Part-time, untenured lecturers are the backbone of many US campuses, but at what price, asks Stephen Phillips. US campuses are in the throes of their most intense recruitment drive in a generation....
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Fast food is no substitute for an intellectual feast
Modularity is a sham and the weapon of choice in the casualisation of our profession, argues Bob Brecher. No one says Oxbridge should modularise its degrees, so if it's not good enough for them, why...
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Swiss research agreement with EU comes into force
Brussels, 05 June 2002 Seven bilateral agreements, including one related to research, signed by Switzerland and the European Union in 1999 have entered into force. The agreements, drawn up following...
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Scientists carry out airborne arctic survey
Brussels, 05 June 2002 European scientists braved the cold to carry out an airborne survey of arctic gravity in early May. The European Survey of Arctic Gravity (ESAG-2002) was successfully carried...
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Star Tiger to unveil submillimetre wave secrets
Paris, 05 June 2002 The Star Tiger team today begins a four-month pioneering research and development project at Rutherford Appleton Laboratories (RAL), which could lead to a real breakthrough for...