Stuck in the wage gap
Unequal Pay for Women and Men
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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 world-war scorcher by an Irish novelist : "That Sunday, from six o'clock in the evening, it was a...
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Crossborder patrol of penal controls
The New European Criminology
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Fallout from a quick-fix world
The Corrosion of Character
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Ties that bind and unwind
Family Fragments?
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Mind over matter
Unlike most philosophers, Daniel Dennett believes we can build a human being and that all the mind's work is just the sum of mechanical systems that make up the brain. Harriet Swain reports As a...
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X marks the academic
With a week's campaigning left before the Scots and Welsh cast their national assembly votes, Alan Thomson asks academic candidates from the main parties why they want to quit their ivory towers for...
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Your starter for ten
The Open University won this week's University Challenge final. Does that mean more students will apply to the OU? John Davies reports Here's a question that wasn't asked in the University Challenge...
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Higher channels
John Davies scans the schedules. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week New Labour has now been in power for two years, so under the overall title Now We Are Two, Channel 4 is marking the...
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Journey to the middle of the brain
The problem with autism, Francesca Happe tells Alison Goddard, is that it stops you reading minds While millions sit glued to the latest plot twist in EastEnders, people with autism are left...
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Making the grade?
The concrete jungles of 1960s architecture are not only back in vogue - they are being listed by English Heritage. But are they hell to work in? Kate Worsley reports These days it is positively old-...
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Ivy League cleans up fraternities
Boston A small, select New England college's decision to end traditional fraternities and sororities has fanned a smouldering debate across the United States about how much colleges should regulate...
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V-cs fear copyright loophole
MELBOURNE Australian vice-chancellors fear their universities will become involved in costly legal battles because the current law on copyright does not cover electronic copying and transmission. The...
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From Rome's reformer
Rome When Ortensio Zecchino took over as university and research minister last October with the creation of the latest Italian government, pundits expected him to take the wind out of his predecessor...
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German students rate east the best
Hamburg Ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, students rate universities in the former communist east among the best in reunified Germany, according to a league table compiled by the news...