Premature publication
As someone involved in the humanities and who chaired a panel in 1993, can I add my voice to concerns about the long-term damage inflicted on scholarship by research assessment exercises ("Out for...
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They go to the disco, buy Jackie, watch a vid, catch a soap, go to the match, have a fuck, weep for Di, love k.d. lang ...
Valentine Cunningham laments the cultural drift of English As English studies dip towards the millennial tape it is clear they are threatened by the prospect of absorption into "cultural studies"....
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Why I ... do not want to be Poet Laureate
Poet and Oxford English fellow Craig Raine was once asked to leave the Bodleian library for "laughing repeatedly" over Ted Hughes's The Iron Man. The chattering classes may be busy compiling lists of...
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Designs for a material life
Sustainable product design is vital to cutting the contribution of consumer goods to environmental pollution, writes Kam Patel Following concerted attempts by governments worldwide to cut industrial...
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Guinea-Bissau loses national archive to war
The war that erupted earlier this yearin the West African republic of Guinea-Bissau has resulted in the destructionof the country's largest and most active researchinstitution. The complex housing...
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China establishes research centre
China has set up a huge natural science and high technology innovation research centre to supportthe country's fast-growing economic and social development strategies. The centre willbe under the...
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Universities form bioscience pact
Five universities have joined forcesto form the Western Arc BiosciencesPlatform, part of a government initiative aimed at keeping Britain ahead ofother European countries in making commercial use of...
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Cutting edge
Herbal medicine research combines ancient knowledge of plants' power and 20th-century science to devise a range of hi-tech natural treatments for the future One of the things that excites me about...
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Making chemistry pay
Companies are leading the drug revolution. Kam Patel reports Southampton University is proposing a new scheme to help universities tackle a serious shortage of expertise in a chemistry technique...
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How to get a job in science policy
Tired of doing research? Why not switch camps and helpdecide who gets the vital funding In universities all over the country, one of the great topics of common-room conversation is the allocation of...
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Copyright laws causing chaos
Academics are alarmed at tougher copyright licensing regulations agreed earlier this year by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and the Copyright Licensing Agency. The agreements cover copying for...
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Rome's mega campus is broken up
Rome's La Sapienza University, the most crowded campus in Europe with more than 170,000 students, will be split into several independent institutions. The move comes after a tug-of-war between the...
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Boules of style
(Photograph) - Simon Eade, a third-year student from the French department at the University of Leeds, throws a boule in the first Leeds international petanque (boules) contest, watched by second-...
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Cash crisis hits student doctors
Sheffield University's multi-million pound franchising venture to stem the acute shortage of doctors in Malaysia has collapsed because of economic crisis there. The university is left with...
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Government revises post-16 education cost report
Objections by training and enterprise councils have forced the government to revise a report showing that further education colleges are the cheapest means of delivering post-16 education. The TEC...