The Oxford Amnesty Lectures, which have raised more than 拢80,000 for Amnesty International, began in 1992 and are one of the world's leading name-lecture series. Each series is published in book form...
Can a country ever justify military intervention in another country's affairs? Only in extreme cases such as Rwanda, argues Tzvetan Todorov, when there is evidence of genocide. The military...
The UK government has voiced its commitment to tackling the link between ill health and poverty, so why is it ignoring those most at risk - the children of refugees? ask Margaret Lawson and Elizabeth...
Ignorance has marred relations between Ireland's north and south, but a centre for cross-border studies is seeking common ground on both sides of the divide. Anne McHardy reports. In a windswept...
In Britain it might keep your child off school, but in Malawi it is a killer. What turns a nasty virus into a deadly cancer? Geoff Watts reports on a medical mystery. Scenario one. Peter, a teenager...
South African campus faces bankruptcy South Africa鈥檚 University of the North, which is owed more than R150 million (拢129,000) in outstanding tuition and boarding fees, faces bankruptcy...
FINANCIAL TIMES A 拢100m investment fund is being raised with the aim of commercialising technology research from four English universities. Chemists from the University of Nottingham believe they...
Education and employment secretary David Blunkett today confirmed the government鈥檚 position that there will be no top-up fees in the next Parliament. Mr Blunkett said: 鈥淚 have made my position clear...
In a wide-ranging speech setting out his government's case for re-election this spring, prime minister Tony Blair said today that there would be 拢2,000 bursaries for students from poor families, a...
Melvyn Bragg 鈥 In Our Time (9.00 am R4). Humanism discussed, with Lisa Jardine and Tony Davis. The Material World (4.30 R4). The University of Pisa's research on people in love. The Jewish Journey (8...
Demonstrators strip staff Demonstrators commemorated the first anniversary of the police raid that ended a ten-month occupation of the National Autonomous University of Mexico by blockading...
Laptop plan criticised by NUS Warwick University's proposal to require students to have laptop computers has been called 鈥渢op-up fees by the back door鈥 by the National Union of Students....
FINANCIAL TIMES MPs' calls for universities to receive greater financial rewards for taking students from poor areas are likely to be rebuffed by the government. A Japanese law has opened...
Memories Are Made of These (11.00 am R4). Faltering memory and the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon. Stephen Hawking's Universe (2.00, also 5.00, 8.00 BBC Knowledge). Repeat series from 1997 reaches...
Pressure grows to widen participation A post-qualification applications system should be introduced to increase the numbers of state-school pupils at top universities, a report by the...