TV review: Those Who Kill
Matt Hills enjoys spotting the overlap as the Danish crime genre continues to bring home the bacon

Matt Hills enjoys spotting the overlap as the Danish crime genre continues to bring home the bacon

Described by former students as a "one-woman dynasty" and by colleagues as a standard-setter in her discipline, Daphne Brooker had a reputation for driving students to maximise their potential.After...
Legal graduates sue alma maters after employment prospects fail to materialise. Jon Marcus reports
Boston College has appealed against part of a US court decision forcing it to turn over transcripts of oral histories of sectarian violence to police in Northern Ireland after weeks of international...
University of BathMichael FinusAn "idealist" who joined the academy to make a difference on global issues has been appointed professor of environmental economics at the University of Bath. Michael...
University of KentDoctoral study of crime paysA university has received almost 80 applications for a three-year doctoral programme in cultural and global criminology, which is being supported by...

Michael Frayn’s plays are as relevant now as they were when they were first written, says John Bull

Chief executive tells Paul Jump how he plans to keep council afloat amid choppy financial waters
Sciences Po, the Paris-based social sciences institute, is an anomaly in French higher education because it selects its undergraduates on entry - unlike public universities, which take all comers. To...
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• Rick Santorum has again denounced US universities as secular "indoctrination mills" as the race for the Republican presidential nomination continues. In an hour-long interview with GBTV's Glenn...

Felipe Fernández-Armesto is only fleetingly charmed by traditional shout-lines

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At the South Pole, David Willetts will have seen blank expanses that are better known than the private sector he wants to grow