From career path to rite of passage
BEFORE I left the University of Sussex, a senior member of faculty made a good point to me. "It seems that most of our graduates are happy with the time they have spent here," he said. "But the...
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Threat to global outlook
PRESSURE to publish and the limited recognition given to work on international projects is forcing British academics to consider halting their international activities, according to the international...
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Tax fears alarm scientists
SCIENTISTS are being caused "considerable anxiety" by proposals that could force non-profit making research and technology organisations to pay corporation tax, writes Julia Hinde. Liberal Democrat...
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Battle gives no promises
THE GOVERNMENT'S premier technology transfer scheme is to be extended beyond universities, but there are no assurances of additional money for major expansion. Science minister John Battle said that...
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Academy gets down to business
FIRST steps towards setting up a University for Industry were taken this week with the appointment of an advisory group from education and business. The 13-strong group, which held its first meeting...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a doctor who defied a dictator: "One hot spring evening, just as the sun was...
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Poet who gave sound to white
Selected Poems
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Anton the authentic
Anton Chekhov
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Home is where the art is
Steven Spielberg - Steven Spielberg
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Slayed Author lives to purge imperial guilt
African Voices, African Lives
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Harpoons, ropes and fisher folk
Sea Hunters of Indonesia
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Anthropologising the West
Essays on the Anthropology of Reason
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Small but perfectly formed
Degrees of Freedom - Life at Small Scale
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Decomposers in life's recycle
In the Company of Mushrooms
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Findings of a lost world
Evolution and Extinction of Dinosaurs - Dinosaurs of the East Coast