Science's golden couple
Move over Posh and Becks. The new golden couple are the husband-and-wife team of Bill Graham, professor of experimental physics at Queen's University, Belfast, and Bernie Hannigan, head of Ulster...
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Low note for TV show
William Paterson University is one New Jersey location unavailable for the filming of the cult TV show The Sopranos , whose second series ended in Britain last week. University officials blamed...
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Latest international news
ߣߣÊÓƵ's students demand funding commitment As ߣߣÊÓƵ enters a federal election year, the country’s National Union of Students has demanded a substantial increase in funding for universities....
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Latest UK news
Cost of dropouts £200 million and rising University dropouts are costing the taxpayer an estimated £200 million a year. Mantz Yorke, professor of education at Liverpool John Moores University, told...
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From today's UK papers
THE GUARDIAN Four anthropologists from the Universitry of Michigan in the US have thrown the story of human origins into confusion with the claim that new evidence shows that modern humans could have...
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Awakenings in sleep
The Paradox of Sleep
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A complex warrior king
Frederick the Great
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Images of a distant paradise
Visions of an Island
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Documentary evidence of a life in the movies
John Grierson
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The roast turkey that made a chef d'oeuvre
The Apocalypse Now Book
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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 science fiction story about an island: "I do not propose to add anything to what has already been...
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What lies beneath the Scot's tartan?
Screening Scotland
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Cinema guide from within
The BFI Companion to German Cinema
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The good, the bad and the quixotic
Sergio Leone
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Around the world sketching, collecting and sitting on moss
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker