Laura takes leap back
The row over Oxford University's refusal to offer a place to state-school pupil Laura Spence generated reams of unfavourable publicity. But it seems they were right. "I don't feel that being from the...
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Eyewitness: First steps in Caucasus peace process
The long-standing enmity between Armenians and Turks could be resolved by a "reconciliation commission", which met for its first session last week. Commission members from Armenia, Turkey, Russia and...
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Beards are back, but no Che
On Moroccan campuses, revolutionary ideals have been supplanted by Islamic fundamentalism, says Hassan Bouzidi. In the heyday of the Union Nationale des Etudiants du Maroc, the beard was worn as a...
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World watch
Paris High salaries and job security are no longer what future managers demand most from their careers, a survey of European management students reveals. Carried out among almost 1,500 students at 11...
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Latest UK news
Scots students step up anti-fees campaign NUS Scotland is stepping up its campaign to ensure that fees are scrapped and grants returned for UK students in Scotland and Scottish students in...
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Latest international news
Funds halted after Johns Hopkins death Federally financed medical studies on human subjects at the Johns Hopkins University have been halted by the United States Department of Health and Human...
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The Nobel and the not nearly so Nobel
As 250 living Nobel laureates prepare to celebrate the centenary of the prize, Joseph Rotblat looks at key omissions in its controversial history. This year, the first of the third millennium, is the...
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The power of a sport to charm a prostitute's son and make playing nations blind to colour
The Picador Book of Cricket - Cricket and Race
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Dolly, Polly and boys from Brazil
When Dolly the sheep was born, journalists from around the world focused their attention on her and two human researchers from the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh in Scotland. Dolly was the first...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work that concerns two women writers and a dog: "It is universally admitted that the family from...
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Giving us an earthly chance
The Ingenuity Gap
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Screening for pure literature
Book to Screen
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Laurie Taylor column
From: The office of the vice-chancellor To: All members of academic staff Some members of staff have apparently expressed concern about the showing of this university in the recent THES survey of the...
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Letter: Shelf service
David Wells praises the British Library's achievements during the past 250 years, but fails to appreciate that we have not bought foreign language material comprehensively for almost 100 years (...