Efforts to provide fresh water to West Bengal and Bangladesh led to an environmental and human catastrophe. But, reports Steve Farrar, scientists are closing in on the cause of the disaster. A widow...
As Chatham House loses its director after a brief tenure, Claire Sanders considers the institute's challenges. When Chris Gamble, the first female director of the Royal Institute of International...
Massimo Salani says meals cement our relationship with God. But, he tells Domenico Pacitti, he never said fast food was fit only for Protestants. An Italian theology lecturer who was catapulted...
Some mature students are so poor that their children will go without presents this Christmas, according to an explosive report into student finances commissioned by the government. Lone parents, who...
Mounties on trail of student loan fraudsters The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is investigating a C$2 million (£893,000) student loan fraud. One man has been arrested and more arrests are expected....
FINANCIAL TIMES Early January should see the blooming of the government's new white paper on the knowledge economy - the latest competitiveness white paper. BP will announce £2.5m funding for...
Pay bargaining chief resigns University pay bargaining chief Peter Humphreys today announced his resignation and said that local pay bargaining is almost certain to become the norm in the sector. Mr...
Truman (9.25 am BBC2, also Thurs 9.15 am, Friday 9.00 am ). Three-part profile of former US president. The Civil War: Traitors and Patriots (10.00 am History Channel) and » The West : Speck of the...
University reopens after student protest The University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso has reopened two months after a boycott of lectures by students demanding better living and...
THE GUARDIAN After 30 years of stonewalling, the United Kingdom government is finally considering following the lead of 91 other countries and signing the Unesco convention banning the international...
OU vice-chancellor leaves for Unesco Sir John Daniel, vice-chancellor of the Open University, is to be assistant director general of Unesco from next spring. Sir John said it would be a “wrench” to...
The Snowman (9.30 am R4). Are snowmen pagan survivals? This and other questions considered by experts in folklore, theology, philosophy … The Civil War: The Cause (10.00 am History Channel, and for...
Court frees academic jailed for terrorism United States attorney general Janet Reno has freed Mazen Al-Najjar, who was jailed as a suspected terrorist in May 1997. Professor Al-Najjar was...
London's research dominance comes under threat Vice-chancellors from London universities and further education institutions have told London mayor Ken Livingstone that the capital’s position as the...
DAILY MAIL MPs will decide tomorrow whether British scientists should be allowed to clone human embryos for research that might lead to cures for diseases such as Alzheimer's Research from...