The guru in the quad
John Kay is stepping down as chairman of consultancy London Economics and stepping into controversy as director of Oxford's school of management studies. Romesh Vaitilingam reports on the Tony Blair...
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As blue as her blood
Simon Targett meets historian and royal biographer Ben Pimlott, who reveals that, despite recent reports claiming that the Queen is a 'bit of a leftie', our monarch is in fact more of a pre-Thatcher...
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Federal farewell
Britain should preserve its free trade status in Europe but cut loose from the tentacles of political union, argues Patrick Minford. John Major went to war with Europe over our cows. With him marched...
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Rebirth of the native
American Indian Greg Sarris tells Tim Cornwell how he escaped glue-sniffing gang land to become a professor, novelist and screenwriter. The literary figure Greg Sarris most admires is William Blake...
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The x and y generation
Mathematics is increasingly being used to unravel the relentless complexity of the natural world, including the way animals behave (bottom). Graham Lawton reports How does a tumour grow? How do...
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Why leaping gazelles are too game for dinner
Mathematics is increasingly being used to unravel the relentless complexity of the natural world, including the way animals behave (bottom). Graham Lawton reports The mathematical exploration of...
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Stand up and be quoted
How should academics deal with the press? Take it on the chin, Ronald Amann tells media-shy social science researchers, or you're not doing your job properly. In order to carry out their projects at...
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V-cs wary of central control
Vice chancellors fear that the creation of a single qualifications authority, heralded in this week's Queen's Speech, could give ministers the power to approve some higher education awards. Plans to...
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Evidence links BSE to humans
Researchers at Imperial College, London this week revealed the first direct evidence appearing to show that mad cows disease has been transmitted to humans. The study, carried out by a team led by...
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TIGER says missing sink is to be found in forests
Scientists appear to have solved the mystery of where huge quantities of man-made carbon dioxide are ending up after being pumped into the atmosphere, writes Kam Patel. Tropical forests were declared...
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Students launch young voter registration drive
The practice of democracy is a lesson many United States university and college students have traditionally failed to learn, writes Jon Marcus. Twenty-five years after the voting age was lowered to...
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Walking tapes rock the black ship
When Tokushima University in Southern Japan proposed an international exchange centre for foreign students, local people's first thought was for the safety of their vegetables. Members of the...
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Rare Russian Masonic books stolen to order
Thieves have broken into one of Russia's leading historical public lending libraries and stolen part of a unique collection of rare Masonic books and a copy of the first book published in Russian....
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The awful choice of Clinton or ...
Honestly, it will be very hard for me to vote for Clinton. I voted for him in 1992 (the first time I voted for a presidential winner). However, his presidency has been seriously disappointing. Though...
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Modules to modernity
Initial teacher training is in a mess, in part because politicians abolished quality control. Michael Barber proposes a fresh route to rigour and relevance. Most of the 10,000 new entrants to the...