Nigerian chemist forced to quit Britain
A Nigerian PhD student conducting important research in to renewable natural resources at Bradford University is being forced to leave the United Kingdom and abandon his work. Jonathan Obaje is a...
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Chock-a-block
(Photograph) - Chock-a-block: New York based artist Ik-Joong Kang with "Buddha eating chocolate", one of the exhibits at his "I am not what I am" exhibition that opened at Leeds Metropolitan...
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Picking up the peaces
Michael Prest listens to frustrated UN general-secretary Boutros Boutros-Ghali give Oxford's Cyril Foster lecture. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the Egyptian secretary-general of the United Nations, is a...
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Cinema verite?
Tim Cornwell reports on the perils for academics of relying on Hollywood's version of history. Hollywood's take on history is back in the news with the latest work of the man called, for good or ill...
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Britain's urban gardener
Architect Richard Rogers has a vision of greener, healthier British cities; a vision the powers-that-be do not share. Kam Patel talked to him about Britain's disregard for culture. If an architect's...
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Grey natter
The human brain is a social brain, according to Robin Dunbar, who challenges the conventional assumption that language evolved with men to enable them to hunt. Instead, he argues, it emerged with...
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Explain tarot and learn to teach
As manager of the Kingsway Centre and the person responsible for the alternative cultures courses in our leisure programme for this year, I feel I should answer some of the points you made (Opinion,...
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Culture of consumerism rather than participation
Student leaders from leading research universities spell out why they think top-up fees are a disaster. The draconian cuts now facing higher education are making the once shunned concept of top-up...
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The wonder of blunder
Lucy Hodges discovers how to benefit from one's errors. Oscar Wilde said experience was the name we give to our mistakes. If only that were true. Far too many people are paralysed by their mistakes....
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The sprint into print
Whatever else is being cut back in the thrifty 1990s, it certainly isn't investment in university presses. John Davies reports. Edinburgh has one but Glasgow hasn't. Durham hasn't but Exeter has....
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Drive a stake in heart of elitism
Recently, the United Kingdom's political landscape has been reinvigorated by a battle of ideas. This is surprising, given UK scepticism about anything intellectual and the tradition of judging...
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The placebo dilemma
Jack Howell (THES, January 19) suggests that an alternative therapy is not invalidated if it improves a medical condition by "the placebo effect". This contradicts his earlier view that a double-...
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Question time for Bible
I was surprised to read that Sheffield's department of biblical studies was "outside the main centres of biblical scholarship". With 25 academics and 110 research students, it may be the largest...
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Question time for Bible
Of all academic disciplines, study of the Bible must be the most contentious. Israel Finkelstein comments on the "subjective environment" which "threatens objectivity and excellence of scholarship" (...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. It is seven weeks since I arrived in Bratislava, but I am still trying to find the social work department, one of two in which my European chair, organised by the Institute for Human Sciences...