NEWS
AS levels - a headache for universities
FEATURES
How did the universe begin? Sir Martin Rees tackles one of science's eternal questions
BOOKS
Which mattered more in the empire - race or rank? David Cannadine's Ornamentalism - his reply to Edward Said's Orientalism - reviewed
RESEARCH
Holiday jobs: our series starts with time spent in a US marine biology lab
TEACHING
A novel introductory course on statistics leads to research on learning