First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work whose first ending was less happy than subsequent ones. "My father's family name being Pirrip,...
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An early fan of Mother Earth from Mother Russia
The Biosphere
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Higher channels
John Davies focuses on radio and television programmes likely to be of use to THES readers. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week There are elements of detective story and cautionary tale in...
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A classic act when you Peel off the sex kitten
Jennifer Wallace meets the latest professor to bestow a whiff of glamour on Oxford I don't know why drama schools don't teach the history of the theatre," announced Diana Rigg to a packed lecture...
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A letter to Santa Claus?
The story of human rights since 1948 is a dismal one, and the United States and Britain are the villains, says Noam Chomsky The Confucian Analects describe the exemplary person as "the one who keeps...
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Diary of a somebody
Tony Benn sees his 60-year archive, soon to be in the British Library, as a way of setting history straight. Kam Patel met him Tony Benn lights his pipe and strolls into the tiny kitchen of his...
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'Frankenstein' foods: why my committee approved them
GM foods served at doom temperature. The scientists writing here, who have been at the forefront of improvements tofood safety, believe that the genetically modified foods on sale in Britain...
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100 more years to find our God
A female albeit straight archbishop, Cote d'Azur weather in Britain and a life expectancy of 30 - Alan Thomson asks leading experts what the future holds The year 2000" has long sounded so futuristic...
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Why I...
...believe that intelligence can be measured by IQ tests and think universities could make use of them This is not even a question of belief. It is an empirical question: something that you can test...
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Kuala Lumpur
From this year, all pre-university students in Malaysia will have to sit a new English paper known as the Malaysian University English Test in an attempt to raise proficiency levels.
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Stockholm
Swedish prime minister Goran Persson and minister of education and science Thomas Ostros last month opened new universities at Orebro and Vaxsjo. Both have been upgraded from university college...
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Eye witness
Scientists are split over the death sentence awaiting Britain's 4,000 introduced North American ruddy ducks. Environment minister Michael Meacher has decided to allow a cull after considering a...
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Primary choice
A consortium of the University of North London, the Borough of Lambeth and the IT Learning Exchange, has been selected as an approved New Opportunities Fund to provide Information and Communications...
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Jewish college in drive for recruits
The London College of Jewish Studies is abandoning full-time degree courses for school-leavers in favour of a radical lifelong learning agenda that will open doors to older people with no formal...