First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a bestseller by a self-confessed 'biology watcher': "We are told that the trouble with Modern Man is...
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Miracle that ate Main Street
Wal-Mart
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A whistle stop tour of polemic
On the Wrong Line
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The elusive ingredient for spinning wool into gold
Los Alumbres Españoles
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Work for Fifi and why drug dealers love their mums
Freakonomics
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The vivid colours of a seductive reflection
Medici Money
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Education Partnership Grants
Deadline: 20/10/2006
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Intelligent design creeps on to courses
Creationism will be 'compulsory', report Jessica Shepherd and Steve Farrar Creationism - the belief that the biblical story of creation is scientific fact - is beginning to make inroads into the...
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'I saw the limits of the power of the UN. reports I wrote were "sanitised"'
After a stint at the UN, Alex Schmid is back in academe, to speak his mind and to focus on terrorism studies The bulwark of academic freedom has brought an internationally known scholar on terrorism...
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On the move...
* Robert Gordon University has awarded professorships to: Donald Cairns , former associate head of the School of Pharmacy; and David Gray , reader at the Centre for Transport Policy. It awarded...
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Staff fear deal will cost jobs
UCU members at Sussex are worried that the university will sacrifice posts to fund the 13.1% pay rise, report Phil Baty and Chloe Stothart Sussex University this week became the first institution to...
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'No' campaign gains momentum even as docking threat subsides
The "vote no" campaign against the pay deal brokered between union leaders and employers gained in strength this week as ballot papers were issued to University and College Union members across the...
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UCU votes to fight Leeds downgrades
Union members at Leeds University this week voted unanimously to take industrial action over the downgrading of 100 administrators' jobs, writes Anna Fazackerley. The Leeds branch of the University...
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OU goes for global presence
The Open University is seeking to become a global online university by building new partnerships at home and abroad. In a major document called OU Futures , the university, which already has 40,000...
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Sainsbury: no right to stay axe
Lord Sainsbury outraged MPs this week by declaring that there should be no government or funding council intervention to prevent vice-chancellors from axeing science departments. Two years ago,...