Pssst, you're a natural gossip
Idle chat and text messaging are modern curses, right? Wrong, says Simon Blackburn, they are simply 21st-century versions of ancient rituals. OhmyGod Are changes in communication altering, for the...
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'I'm an Academic ... Get Me Out of Here'
Abandoned in a forest in a swirling snow storm, a band of brave university staff struggle to find the pub yet still encounter some festive spirit in John Gilbey's seasonal short story The vice-...
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With research like this, a 4* rating is just pie in the sky
Angela Thody previews her paper on mince-pie consumption to the All Comers Faithfully Winterfest Conference Ever conscious of the impending research assessment exercise, where everything possible...
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How was '05 for...
... Oliver Double Lecturer in stand-up comedy at Kent University What did you make of government policy? It's not so much individual bits of policy, it's more the general direction that goes back to...
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The ethos is religious, but it's not antiscience
Africa's Christian universities are a far cry from fundamentalist US ones, says Kevin Ward Education has long been associated with religion in Africa. The term "reader" has often been used to...
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Schools for the Enlightenment or epiphany?: Steve Fuller
Does allowing faith a more prominent role in education mean allowing unreason and intolerance on to the curriculum? Steve Fuller argues that intelligent design shows how the Bible has been a powerful...
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Schools for the Enlightenment or epiphany?: Harry Brighouse
Harry Brighouse believes the opposite but would welcome faith-based schools into the mainstream to curb such excesses of religious zealotry One of the many aims of the Government's new education...
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How was '05 for ...
... Richard Evans professor of modern history, Cambridge What did you think of government policy? Winning the General Election was the best thing the Government did. It guaranteed the introduction of...
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Orange revolutionaries reap fruit of their labours
A year ago, presidential election protests shook Ukraine. Vera Rich, who observed the rerun of those elections, returns to find a nation reborn, but its personality as yet unformed On November 22,...
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To boldly go and spread it about
It's about time British academics blasted off into the blogosphere, argue Andrew Oswald and Mary Visser It was a warm November afternoon in 1477 when the trouble began. England's first printed book,...
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How was '05 for...
... Sally Feldman , dean of the School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster What did you think of government policy? It created an obstacle course for international students trying to...
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History of medicine: Short-term Research Leave Awards
Deadline: 01/03/2006
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UK Solas
Deadline: 09/02/2006
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Today's news
Universities hit by boom in bogus degrees online The reputation of British universities abroad is being damaged by companies peddling bogus degrees, the Government’s quality watchdog has claimed. The...
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Latest research news
Fresh doubt cast on Korean scientist's stem cell breakthrough South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-Suk's groundbreaking stem cell research was cast into fresh doubt today as a former collaborator said he...