The tanks that think
Simon Midgley turns the spotlight on the Institute for Public Policy Research The Institute for Public Policy Research was set up in 1988 as a left-of centre alternative to the free market think...
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Now you see it, now you don't
You will never get students - or staff - always to lock their doors. Frank Woods looks at other ways to keep intruders out and valuables safe. A couple of weeks ago one university security officer...
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Campus Services
(Photograph) - The financial squeeze on universities in recent years is set to continue. And it is not just academic provision that is undergoing a big transformation. As this issue of Campus...
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The virtual past master
Historians inevitably look at what was, but Niall Ferguson also asks what if ... Sian Griffiths talks to him Niall Ferguson's London flat is like an Oxford undergraduate's set of rooms. True, it is...
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Reigning cats and dogs
People lavish affection and money on pets and some even prefer them to humans. John Archer reveals the evolutionary reasons P D. James's novel The Children of Men takes the apparent decline in sperm...
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The haves and have nots
The general election campaign is unlikely to include discussion of poverty or the gap between rich and poor. Tony Atkinson wonders why Inequality is a major election issue. Even if Labour is cautious...
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The vivisection void
Media reports on live animal experiments are not explicit enough to promote a debate about the moral issues, argues Jacky Turner Activists for animal welfare often take part in exchanges such as...
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Bred in the bone
Harriet Swain hears why, despite the family rows, Louise Leakey is determined to carry on the palaeontological work of her parents After a childhood spent helping to dig up her forebears, Louise...
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Women on the edge of a breakthrough
Jane Ussher argues that there are still important female issues that lack proper recognition in psychology In 1985 a group of women psychologists, despairing at the state of British psychol-ogy,...
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Zeal of the spider woman
Former Chinese Red Guard Rae Yang's memoir is a tale of idealism, love and lies under Mao. Tim Cornwell reports The Cultural Revolution, insists Chinese scholar Rae Yang, was not a time when "all of...
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Tower of strength
(Photograph) - Trainer was re-elected by the National Union of Students conference in Blackpool this week for a second year as president. He pledged to fight against top-up fees, promote wider...
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Graduates resigned to debt
GRADUATES are increasingly accepting debt as a fact of life, according to the findings of a national survey. Only one third of students graduating last year said they were worried, concerned or angry...
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Dolly fails to find warm hello
DOLLY should never have been cloned, Britain's first gene jury has been told. More than 400 members of the public took centre stage last week at the debate hosted by the Wellcome Trust. The audience...
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Poor performers targeted
FIFTY "under-performing" academics are to be axed by Nottingham University in an attempt to improve ratings in the next research assessment round. Lecturers have until May to decide whether to leave...
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College risks Natfhe strike
Sheffield College is facing the possibility of a total shutdown after its lecturers voted for industrial action over plans to cut more than 200 jobs. Members of lecturers' union Natfhe voted 56 per...