French no longer enough in France
Jack Lang, France's new minister of education, has long-term plans for all students to graduate with a good command of two foreign languages. As a first step he is giving priority to the introduction...
Search
-
-
Dissident Serb academics seek British partnership
Dissident Serbian academics are exploring the possibility of collaboration with universities in the UK. Representatives from the Belgrade-based Alternative Academic Education Network have been in...
-
Scots greet web 'tidal wave'
Scottish Knowledge, which exports university and college expertise in education and training, has signed a global e-university alliance with Shell International, to give the company's 75,000...
-
Ozone used to clean water
Chemists have devised a way to harness the cleansing properties of ozone to strip pollutants from waste water. A team of experts from the University of Bradford is setting up a plant to test its...
-
Victory for dot-com with a conscience
Like most MBA students now, Jenna Beart and Michael Douek dream of starting a dot-com company and making their first million. Unlike most, they also plan to save lives along the way. And as winners...
-
First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is by a philosopher sometimes mistaken for a famous playwright: "'What is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and...
-
Manna from the English heaven
The Cambridge History of the English Language, Volume 4 1776-1997
-
Popular science - the new God by reason of age
Time of Our Lives
-
No hurrays for Bollywood
Who Do We Think We Are?
-
A leftwards look at the excluded many
Social Exclusion
-
Veritable origins or specious?
Defenders of the Truth
-
No sight of a new colour-blind century
Oxford Readers
-
Making numbers add up to lie detection
Understanding Social Statistics
-
Desperately seeking asylum
Refugees, Citizenship and Social policy in Europe
-
The script we all have to read
Constructing Death