Patron of the skills arsenal
For 15 years Richard Layard has believed that tackling unemployment meant weaning the long-term jobless off the benefit culture. Now he has a chance to put some flesh on the bones of his theory...
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How dumb teenagers can win prizes
Martin Ince talks to Pat Shipman and Alan Walker, the winners of the Rhone-Poulenc science book prize, whose revelations about a 1.5-million-year old skeleton added much to our knowledge of the '...
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Media glare takes toll on Dolly's 'dad'
Fame has put the world's first cloned sheep on a diet and left her co-creator, Ian Wilmut, feeling a little frazzled. Julia Hinde reports Dolly's on a diet. The world's most photographed sheep has...
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Seeing the white
Richard Dyer leaps to the defence of white studies because, he argues, it forces us to see whiteness as strange rather than as the benchmark of what is ordinary It doesn't take much to raise the...
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An old leftie feels alrighty
After a dismal two decades for the left in Britain, Michael Foot at long last has something to celebrate. Brian Brivati finds Hampstead's most famous resident relishing his party's election landslide...
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Campbell gets science policy role
ANNE Campbell, MP for Cambridge, is to become John Battle's private parliamentary secretary, giving the former member of the House of Commons select committee on science and technology an influential...
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Leslie and his third age eye-opener
Leslie Kennedy-Perry lost out on higher education first time around because he was with the RAF fighting in the second world war. Now, aged 76, he is studying part time for a masters degree in...
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Older and wiser: the over-60s flock to learn
PENSIONERS are becoming a powerful force in higher education, according to a report to be discussed at a seminar next week. It reveals that the over-60s are more likely to enter post-school education...
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Black tea gets the green light
The good old cup of English tea is presenting scientists with a chemical mystery which may well have a happy ending. Until now nutritionists have dismissed black tea, used mostly in European brews,...
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Times they are a-changin'
The Times, they are a changing - literally. After more than two decades of resistance, a Bill in the House of Lords this month may signal time out for a great British institution. As astronomers...
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Raoul Franklin to retire
City University's vice chancellor Raoul Franklin has announced that he is to retire at the end of August next year. Professor Franklin will have been in the post for 20 years.
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In the frame
(Photograph) - Gabby Leigh, a final-year student at the University of Wolverhampton, has made a giant steel camera as part of her final year Exhibition.
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Burning up
Road rage has hit the ÌÇÐÄVlog Quality Council. Staff at the HEQC's London and Birmingham offices were already furious to hear they would be expected to commute to Cheltenham, where the...
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'Unfair' funding attacked
NEW rules on distributing money are unfair and impracticable, claim universities expecting to lose cash from the changes. At least ten vice chancellors are discussing opposition to decisions on a new...
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Dearing split on money
Sir Ron Dearing's committee of inquiry is split on two big issues -plans to charge students a quarter of the cost of their higher education and the funding of research. One option is to adopt a...