(Photograph) - Train of thought: The newly formed Institute of Railway Studies at York has taken on two research students. Professor of railway studies, Colin Divall (centre), has offered...
Research into ageing is uncoordinated, underfunded and sometimes duplicated, say the proponents of a scheme to set up a national centre for ageing research. The solution is to start a network to...
(Photograph) - Industrial revolution: Apprenticeships are heading for a renaissance thanks to a Pounds 1.29 billion Government initiative to bring 150,000 youngsters back into industry by the end of...
Hundreds of school and college leavers expecting to gain new vocational A levels have had their hopes of a place in higher education dashed by red tape. Admissions chiefs said this week they were "...
University medical schools have escaped being forced to narrow their entry criteria following a court ruling this week. Conor O'Reilly, an academically qualified teenager who was rejected by Glasgow...
The DNA Mystique
The Secret State
The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Army
Heathcliff and The Great Hunger
German Ideology
India, Pakistan and the Kashmir Dispute
The Sepoy and the Raj - Fidelity and Honour - The Development of British Land Forces in South Asia, 1600-1947
Diversity in Japanese Culture and Language
Burmese
This week's Final Word comes from a 20th-century writer interested in a degree of sexual latitude: "Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they...