A light for dark Burmese days
George Soros is giving hope to refugees from an oppressive regime. Maureen Aung-Thwin discusses the aims of the philanthropist. People are intrigued that the foundation network created by Hungarian-...
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So you can get to level four on Tomb Raider - but do you know how it works?
British children love computer games, but they should also be learning to understand the technologies that drive them. Computers are almost ubiquitous: cars, mobile phones and even toasters are...
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Building on a breakdown
Poverty and depression left Peter Beresford a virtual prisoner in his own home. But he turned the tables when he used his experience to found a user-led research centre. It was 14 years ago that a...
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Daily TV & radio guide - Friday
The Poet and the Astronaut (11.00 am R4). Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis and her cousin Joe Tanner, who inspired her poem Zero Gravity (featured in a BBC2 programme in July 1999). Belief (7.00 R3). Last in...
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Higher Channels
Pick of the week Jonathan Meades brings BBC2's Victorian season to a close with the enjoyably pugnacious Victoria Died in 1901 but is Still Alive Today (Sunday 9.45). The programme is mainly about...
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Latest UK news
University applications drop Confidential preliminary totals from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service show that on 20 November 2000 the number of application forms received was about 6,...
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Latest international news
Pay dispute prompts exam boycott Lecturers at the University of Zambia have blocked end of semester examinations in a dispute over a 100 per cent pay demand, despite a promise of rapid negotiations...
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From today's UK papers
GUARDIAN Former maths teacher - and teaching union head - John Dunford responds to a survey in which children depicted maths teachers as lonely, bald and unstylish. INDEPENDENT An economist...
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TV & radio guide - Thursday
The X File (11.30 am R4). Alex Cox on film censorship’s history and the first "X certificates" in 1951. Belief (7.00 R3). Joan Bakewell interviews John Bowker, theology professor. Gold...
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Latest international news
Education minister regains control of universities Danish minister for education Margrethe Vestager has regained responsibility for the country’s universities from the research ministry. The research...
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Latest UK news
Chemicals found in farmed salmon Research by a Surrey University toxicologist has found worrying levels of potentially dangerous chemicals in farmed salmon. Miriam Jacobs traced the contamination by...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Academics gave a mixed response yesterday to the government's offer of extra money to retain the United Kingdom's star researchers and encourage high-flyers from abroad to...
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TV & radio guide - Wednesday
Stealing the Glory: The Conquest of the North Pole (11.00 am R4). About the Black explorer Matthew Henson. Call My Bluff (12.30 BBC2). What’s Susan Greenfield doing here? Animal Sanctuary (7.30 BBC1...
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Latest international news
Bush appoints former football coach George W. Bush has nominated a former athletic director and dean of Texas Southern University as his education secretary. Rod Paige took a doctorate in physical...
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Latest UK news
Science salaries could top 100K Scientists could earn £100,000 or more under a scheme to stem the UK’s “brain drain”. Vice-chancellors are being invited to bid for grants for their researchers from a...