No strings research
Whatever the reasons for top scientists working on BSE at the Institute of Animal Health apparently coming under threat, the wider public must be wondering how essential research on a possibly life-...
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Business bids low for skills
It is difficult to imagine there ever being an awareness-raising AIDs-style "training" day, let alone a whole week. But, in retrospect, that is what we have just had - if unofficially and without...
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Part of the equation
Will the Budget revive demands to rethink higher education funding? Ann Hanson, David Smith and Ian Pyper want a model based on part-time students' needs. Earlier in the year it looked as though The...
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Don's Diary
Monday. To Riga, Latvia. We're off for a seminar with university lecturers who might add British studies to their sophisticated programme of advanced English language teaching work. I have spent...
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From the week came strengths
My diary says it was just week 46 - not "Education Week", "Further Education Week" or even "Probity in Education Week". Yet it ought to have had a special name for it provided three intriguing firsts...
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It is authentic
The Life of King Alfred purports to have been written in the year 893 by a Welsh priest at King Alfred's court. The work has not been found to contain any errors or anachronisms of a kind that would...
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Alf, the cinder fella
Simon Targett reports on how a dispute among medieval historians over the authenticity of King Alfred's biography (Asser's Life) has grown from an argument about burnt cakes into a flaming row about...
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You've come a long way
The Scottish renaissance of the 18th century was a remarkable development. Its original contributions to modern thought deserve the attention they have received. What is less well known is that the...
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It is a forgery
The realisation that The Life of King Alfred is a forgery compiled by a monk in the early 11th century has profound implications not only for our understanding of the historical Alfred - now freed...
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The ascendancy of man
Roger Penrose tells Kam Patel why he thinks human beings will always be cleverer than computers and why we need a new physics Most of us at times will come across some aspect of the physical world...
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Rebel yell at vulgarity
Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko explains to Radhakrishnan Nayar how capitalism has polluted Russian culture At the end of an hour-long interview over breakfast at the Charing Cross Hotel, Yevgeny...
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Er, pause for thought
In our occasional series on first publications, Martyn Kelly talks to Geoffrey Beattie. When I was 11 my world fell apart," wrote psychologist and writer Geoffrey Beattie in his autobiographical work...
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A misconceived agenda
Gavin Fairbairn believes abortion is wrong. The academy, he says, thinks he should stay silent A couple of years ago a student told me how shocked he had been that I had "admitted" to my belief that...
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A disarming chap
It is 50 years since Joseph Rotblat quit the atom bomb project, but this year's Nobel peace prizewinner is still tirelessly campaigning against the menace he once helped to create. Lucy Hodges went...
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Foresight gets praise
Completion of the first stages of the Technology Foresight programme in just two years was a "remarkable achievement" despite "some flaws" in the process, according to the House of Commons science...