British universities have been accused for years of failing to prepare students adequately for work. The plethora of statistics released this week suggests that this accusation was false. Yet in its...
Nigel Barley delights in the deciduous and a deltiologist's. In the village where I grew up there was a little old lady who lived alone. When she died and they broke down the door, they discovered...
The Effect of Science on the Second World War
The Lying Stones of Marrakech
The Doctors of Revolution
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel that revolves around a seedy shop in Soho: "Mr Verloc, going out in the morning, left the shop...
Bertrand Russell
A Memoir
Science and Poetry
A Companion to the Philosophy of Science
The Song of the Earth
Victorian Writing about Risk
Urban Recycling
Cultural and Spiritual Values of Biodiversity - Hotspots
In the third of our series on intellectual property issues, Danny Quah tells Alison Goddard how the profit motive can drive innovation. Hard-nosed commercialism is no bad thing in universities, says...