Sector's shower of gifts
Canada's shell-shocked higher education sector has gratefully accepted a host of gifts from a government expected to call an election soon. Liberal finance minister Paul Martin has unveiled the...
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Melbourne plans full fees
The University of Melbourne has become the first Australian university to unveil plans to charge some home undergraduates full-cost fees of up to Aus$22,000 (Pounds 11,000) a year. If plans by Alan...
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Prizewinning abuser jailed
Nobel prize winner Daniel Carleton Gadjusek will spend a year behind bars after pleading guilty to two counts of sex abuse on a boy he adopted from Micronesia, in the Pacific Ocean. Professor...
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Second sex centre set to be first to go
Academics at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute in Montreal are feeling very much like the "second sex" now that their feminist research centre has been targeted for closure. Concordia University in...
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Thailand to get 'western' university
British and Australian universities face a new competitor for students from the burgeoning economies of Southeast Asia. Academics and administrators from North Carolina's Duke University are helping...
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Same-sex university to last 100 days
MADELEINE Albright, Benazir Bhutto and Hillary Clinton all graduated from one: now German academics have come closer to creating a women's university to produce the leaders of tomorrow. A women's...
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On being 'dead-alive'
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind
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The election machine
How Tory Governments Fall - A History of Conservative Politics 1900-1996
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The origami master from Russia
On Grief and Reason
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Heavenly host in the arrivals lounge
Omens of Millennium
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In search of the hidden, merry Ireland
Repossessions
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On Shelley's sideboard
Shelley and the Revolution in Taste
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The price of elephant jokes
The Illusions of Postmodernism
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Will's awareness of modern fiends
Shakespeare's Universal Wolf
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Scourge of the literal tendency
Freedom's Law