Liverpool's live culture
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have made an unusual contribution to Liverpool's bid to become the European capital of culture in 2008. They have grown the city's liver bird logo from...
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In the news: Tim O'Riordan
As world leaders meet for the earth summit in Johannesbur, one advocate of sustainable development will be fighting to make himself heard. To be sure, Tim O'Riordan, professor of environmental...
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Education, education, too much education?
Is paying poorer students to stay on at school and university money well spent? asks John Mace Chancellor Gordon Brown has announced that 16 to 19-year-old students from poorer backgrounds will...
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That old age problem that won't go away
Banking on Death Or, Investing in Life
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Couth about Down Under
Culture in ߣߣÊÓƵ
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel by a severe stammerer: "I confess that when I first made acquaintance with Charles Strickland...
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Scripts for stage, net and airwaves
The Language of Conversation - The Language of Drama - The Language of Speech and Writing - The Language of ICT
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Shackled to serve the East
Slavery in the History of Muslim Black Africa - Islam's Black Slaves
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Moral fables of Mr Egypt
Naguib Mahfouz at Sidi Gaber
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Laurie Taylor column
Dear Everybody Thought that you might like to know that your favourite third-year gang from last year did finally make it to Majorca We've really been letting our hair down after all the stress of...
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Leader: Corporate universities can teach us a lesson
As if Britain's new universities have not got enough to worry about in attracting students, there is a renewed warning this week of the threat of corporate universities eroding their market. The...
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Leader: AS levels should not be a shortcut to degree entry
The annual A-level row is almost over and the GCSE version is just beginning. It is the universities' turn to be accused of dumbing down. At a time of record pass rates, some are apparently ready to...
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If war is not the answer, what is?
It's not enough to oppose confrontation with Saddam - the world must come up with an alternative that does not abandon the Iraqi people to endless suffering, says Christoph Bluth We don't know when...