Take the Mickey no more Nigel Wheeler, 25, third-year student, BA (Hons) media production, Luton University Course: There is a lack of direction. I have brought this up in meetings and asked, "How...
He has the ear of the prime minister, heads the LSE and is 'one of the 300 most powerful people in Britain'. Not bad for a boy from Edmonton. Harriet Swain talks to Anthony Giddens  The bright new...
John Davies scans the schedules (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week. What does it mean to be Scottish, Catalan, Irish or Finnish? This week, Radio 3's Postscript: Cultural Nationalism...
If a plant can cure cancer, Paul Alan Cox is willing to hang out of a helicopter to find it, writes Julia Hinde Paul Alan Cox has brought us natural shampoos and award-winning foot cream, he has...
Why do some ideas evolve through history, while others are lost in the annals of time? Memes, of course. Susan Blackmore outlines a theory that has split the academic world We humans are odd...
While the press was busy abusing media studies, its graduates were busy getting jobs in the press, writes Tony Tysome The irony of the situation does not escape most media studies academics: as a...
Can a mum be a professor? Only if dad does half the childcare. Francine Deutsch reports on a new division of labour I grew up in the optimistic early days of the Women's Movement. Despite an all-male...
Hamburg A German university professor has claimed that half of all students are not intelligent enough to be at university. Jutta Rall-Niu, head of the Hamburg branch of DHV, the association of...
Tim Greenhalgh on the Pounds 30 million telecoms research link in Silicon Fen Andy Hopper is wearing a smile that communicates more than a simple sense of satisfaction with the way his academic life...
Chicago An Illinois death-row inmate has been released from prison thanks to the efforts of students of investigative journalism at Northwestern University. Anthony Porter had been in jail for 16...
Correction A report of the final-year salary of Fay Gale, former vice-chancellor of the University of Western Australia (THES, December 25), failed to make clear that the figure included entitlements...
Melbourne Despite the loss of up to 5,000 jobs in Australian universities over the past three years, overseas academics are still being hired to fill the few vacancies that occur. Vice-chancellors...
The universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York are planning to launch a multimillion investment fund to help their academics set up high-tech spin-off firms. Called the White Rose Technology Seedcorn...
Arpad Pusztai's research into genetically modified potatoes involved the Rowett Research Institute, the Scottish Crop Research Institute in Dundee and Durham University's biology department. The...
Twenty-nine groups opposed to genetically modified food have organised themselves into a Five-Year Freeze campaign group. This week they took to the streets of Westminster to raise concerns over the...