Latinos lose out in legal U-turn
America's Latino population is suffering as anti-affirmative measures approved by state governments and backed by the courts begin to bite. Latinos have the highest highschool dropout rate of all US...
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Thwarted staff nationals spark inquiry into University of Botswana
GABORONE A committee of inquiry is investigating allegations of financial and administrative irregularities at the University of Botswana. The underlying issue is the employment of non-Batswana...
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Sheepish winners
The campaign group Seriously Ill for Medical Research has announced the winners of its Mad Animal Rights Awards. Director Vicky Cowell said the group had devised the awards to bring to public notice...
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Train in vain
A late entry has arrived for The Diary competition to name the train on which vice-chancellors will travel to the annual Universities UK meeting in Aberystwyth next month. Reader David Dunn reckons...
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Shakedown cruise
Stowed away on the replica Endeavour , the subject of The Ship , a BBC2 series that began this week, was a team of academics. The volunteers - historians, a botanist, botanical artist and an...
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Aberdeen's big bruv
And you thought Big Brother was over. The University of Aberdeen plans to create a "live diary room" for its open day next week. Visitors to the August event will be invited to go into the booth and...
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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