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MPs warn on science departments The Government must seize more control over universities to stop them closing science, technology, engineering and mathematics departments, MPs have demanded. In the...
MPs warn on science departments The Government must seize more control over universities to stop them closing science, technology, engineering and mathematics departments, MPs have demanded. In the...
Multimedia to multidisciplinary, social scientists are pursuing new research methods. Rebecca Attwood reports from their annual conference It may sound an unlikely pairing, but under a new initiative...
England on Edge - The English Civil War
As Feminist Review publishes its 25th anniversary issue, Anna Fazackerley looks back over its fulfilling, dedicated and turbulent past and talks to members of the collective about politics, race,...
Flocks of domestic geese synchronise egg laying in the same way that women's menstrual cycles can come into sync, according to new research. Psychologist John Kent and colleagues at University...
Two students charged as rape case heightens race tensions Two white players from the lacrosse team at Duke University were charged with the kidnapping and gang rape of an African-American woman...
Brussels, April 2005 Commission opinion of 25 April 2004 concerning the plan for the disposal of radioactive waste arising from the decommissioning of the Dungeness A Nuclear Power Station located in...
Forget course guides and handouts, Frank Furedi says students need to embrace the book I have to confess that I have a thing about books. My heart starts throbbing when I go into a library I have not...
University fires professor at centre of cloning fraud Seoul National University fired the disgraced cloning pioneer Hwang Woo-suk yesterday following a disciplinary meeting, saying that he and his...
Universities may be forced to squeeze the number of medical school places they can offer unless they can train more academic clinicians, a conference heard this week. Medical academics attending the...
European Journal of Political Theory
Oxford owns up to a bias against girl applicants Oxford admitted for the first time yesterday that it discriminated against female applicants and those from independent schools. But a study carried...
Exam board to bury Latin and Greek Latin and Greek are being scrapped at GCSE and A level after June 2006 by the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance, the country's largest examinations...
Our increasingly feminised culture ought to help women succeed but it doesn't, argues Mary Evans When footballer Paul Gascoigne famously burst into tears on the pitch, he had no idea that he would...
Many people with disfiguring diseases hide from society and eschew relationships for fear of rejection and criticism, writes Steve Farrar. The extent of emotional distress endured by people with one...