First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is by a pseudonymous author whose burlesque on British chivalry is also a satire on modern technology and...
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Asia's deadly enigma
Question: which country suffers famine, launches missiles over its neighbours and prints counterfeit dollar bills? Answer: the secret Stalinist state of North Korea. Aidan Foster-Carter reports...
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Stylish theory kinda guy
Worldly Wise: 13. Economist Paul Krugman is pugnacious, contrary - and often right. He forecast East Asia's crisis and he has a controversial prescription. Huw Richards reports Economist Paul Krugman...
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Routes to the top: three students discuss different approaches to getting a first-class degree
Late starter Annie James is taking a masters degree in society, science and nature at Lancaster University, where last year she gained a first-class honours in applied social science and independent...
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A trip down mammary lane
Breasts have been feared and worshipped throughout history, seen as both nurturing and suffocating. Kate Worsley meets Marilyn Yalom, who has researched the meanings that they have had to carry over...
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Working from first principles
How can your students get first-class degrees? Successful graduate Peter Tolmie reveals how it is done Easter vacation. The middle of the night. All the heaters have gone off. The weight on your...
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Nuclear Acord
James Acord is the world's sole nuclear sculptor and the only individual licensed to work with radioactive materials. Kate Worsley reports on the man at Imperial College, London, struggling to turn...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1996/97 reveal that: * 6 per cent of male graduates were unemployed six months after graduating. * 5 per cent of females were unemployed six...
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Chairs
University of Wales, Bangor Gareth Edwards Jones, head of department in the rural resource management department at the Scottish Agricultural College in Edinburgh, has been appointed professor of...
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Feathereds' friend
(Photograph) - Feathereds' Friend: Carmen Gonzaler, a Spanish student from Macelo Spinola College, Seville, is working at the Barn Owl Trust in Devon using the latest technology to aid the declining...
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Sunderland bids for UFI
THE City of Sunderland launched a bid this week to convince the government to set up its University for Industry in the north east. The City Partnership said that the UFI headquarters could bring...
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Marxist propaganda
"If there had been a charge, Marx would never have written Capital, argues a press release from campaigners against the introduction of charges at the British Library. Is this supposed to be a point...
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Colleges overtake schools
Completing our series on widening access to university, Phil Baty reports on further education's role. Further education colleges will soon be the primary recruiting ground for higher education,...
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Private colleges demand subsidy
Private higher education colleges should be subsidised by the public purse to the tune of Pounds 3,000 a student, the sector's leaders will tell the government. In a paper to be submitted to the...
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Euro chiefs fear erosion of role
The traditional position of European universities is under threat, university chiefs have been warned. Universities have lost their monopoly on teaching and research, with global corporations now...