Broad-minded young contender
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
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Formulas for life in a solid world
Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids
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Kindling for bright sparks
Combustion Theory and Modelling
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The lesser spotted Palearctic guide
BWP Update: The Journal of the Birds of the Western Palearctic
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What happened to scientists' academic freedom?
When one academic challenged the orthodoxy on Aids, he was spurned by his peers;when another enraged the public with racial theories, he was allowed to continue in his work. Next week, in a special...
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Should freedom cover racial science?
The scientific study of race, says Professor Jean-Philippe Rushton of the University of Western Ontario, is proscribed by a "taboo" that has "no parallel I not the Inquisition, not Stalin, not Hitler...
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The great Aids pandemic
Aids entered the medical domain quietly in 1981 with a report in Los Angeles of five cases of severe pneumonia caused by a parasite, Pneuocystis carinii, common in animals but uncommon in man. All...
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Rough-hewn chairs of history
Furniture built of scrap and left to rot is now sought by auction houses and pored over by academics. Bill Cotton, the man responsible, sits down with Kate Worsley. Do you care enough about your...
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For the record
* Computer giants Microsoft and ICL plan to work with Wolverhampton University to launch a European research and development centre for on-line learning technology for schools, colleges and...
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Paul Ormerod's grouping of universities
Finding new ways to measure success Group 1 This group is split into two clusters - elite and redbrick. There is no ranking of institutions within these clusters. Elite Cambridge; Oxford; Imperial;...
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Agony aunt
Q) I am supervising a student whom I strongly suspect is suffering from mental health problems. I have no experience of this and want to know what is the best way to help her. Jill Manthorpe Chair of...
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For the record
* Ballot papers have gone out to members of lecturers' union Natfhe at South Bank University asking whether they support industrial action. The union is angry because it did not get agreement on...
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Tom Middlehurst
* Tom Middlehurst is responsible for post-16 education and training in the Welsh Assembly.
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Winning streak
Gary Haines hopes to be the first in his East End family to go to university. Unemployed since 1990, he is on a London Fresh Horizons' access course and has won an outstanding achievement award as...
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Too tired to apply
Vice-chancellors have warned that universities are suffering from funding "initiative fatigue". They have told funding chiefs their institutions have been set too many short-term "challenges"...