Strength in uni-ty
Why," asks Simon Jenkins on page 17, "are our universities so timid?" In his book, Accountable to None: the Tory Nationalisation of Britain, published this week, he has rehearsed the sorry saga of...
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Turning green into gold
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences. This week The 91茄子S summer series on research begins. As mainstream teaching ends for the summer vacation in much of higher education, academic staff and...
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The family valued
The supposed decline of the family has long excited moralists and politicians eager to make its threatened status anelection issue. Now sociologist Stein Ringen is about to offer them some...
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Research reforms anger scientists
Danish ministry of research proposals for a tripartite research policy structure have angered the university and research community. Bent Schmidt-Nielsen, rector of the Royal Danish Veterinary and...
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One badly blemished Brahmin
Jawaharlal Nehru - Nehru
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Union mergers make sense for all staff
Higher education is at a crossroads and the need for cooperation between trade unions in higher education has never been more pressing. With unions spanning academic and related support staff, a...
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Academic bias slammed
A Training and Enterprise Council chief has launched a scathing attack on the "conspiratorial" neglect of work-based learning by academics, civil servants and politicians. Policy-makers and further...
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Keeping up with the Dow-Joneses
A Random Walk down Wall Street
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Water and troubled oil
Greenpeace may have won the political battle to stop Shell sinking its oil platform, Brent Spar, at sea but it has not won the scientific debate. Ragnar Lofstedt describes how the activists were able...
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Parting political shots
The French pride themselves on Cartesian clarity. They have been trained to turn everyday difficulties into abstract problems, and to seek solutions from the top down, as consequences of general...
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Tobacco, coffee, cocoa and crack
Narcotics in History - Drugs, Crime and Corruption - Eurodrugs
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Haphazard hazards
Natural Risk and Civil Protection
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A question of value for money
As Budget Day approaches there have been the usual leaks about fights within the Cabinet over public expenditure cuts. The two alleged victims are social security and education. This is bad news for...
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The fascination of fear
Weekly, the media highlight another threat to human health - from BSE to powdered baby milk. But how much do we really know about such risks? Since 1987 the Society for Risk Analysis - Europe has...
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While around the world campuses were plagued by death and violence
In the year that memorial tables to the four colleagues murdered by Concordia University professor Valery Fabrikant were unveiled, there were several reminders that universities are not immune from...