Rules of engagement must be embraced for a long, happy future
Universities need to learn how to present themselves and their work to the public to ensure mutual understanding, says Paul Manners
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New Galleries of Ancient Egypt and Nubia
Christina Riggs takes a clockwise tour around an exhibition that draws on fresh ways of thinking about Nile Valley civilisation
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Diary
SouthamptonTerry Smith: ParallaxProlific, committed and quietly subversive, Terry Smith is a major British artist who consistently works under the radar of the mainstream. He claims to have "no...
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The Pick - Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art from Germany
Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art from GermanySaatchi Gallery, London, until 30 April 2012Dirk Bell's Abgrund (Abyss) is an oil portrait of a naked woman seen from behind, her body pink against a white...
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'Professors are born' - shock claim
According to one of our leading academics, Professor Gordon Lapping of the Department of Media and Cultural Studies, the recent report on the professoriate by the Leadership Foundation for Higher...
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TV review: Imagine: Alan Ayckbourn - Greetings from Scarborough
Alan Ayckbourn's plays are full of gentle humour and sharp insights into all human life, says Gary Day
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Film review: The Deep Blue Sea
Philip Dodd finds moments to cherish in Terence Davies' meditation on a tortured relationship
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Gordon Higginson, 1929-2011
An academic with "unfailing warmth and courtesy", Gordon Higginson's nine-year tenure as vice-chancellor of the University of Southampton left a legacy that is still evident throughout the...
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Say it ain't so, Joe: US sector's pact with the drop-kick devil
Penn State scandal shows sport's stranglehold on American academy. Jon Marcus reports
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Appointments
University of Texas at AustinSally Dodson-RobinsonA scholar from the University of Texas at Austin plans to use a Faculty Early Career Development award from the National Science Foundation to answer...
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Odds and quads
Adolphus was the mascot of fighter ace Maurice Leblanc-Smith (1896-1986), winner of the Distinguished Flying Cross, and accompanied him on many missions during the First World War.
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Leader: Young, gifted and slapped
Why is it that when young people express frustration at the bleak future they see ahead, we respond with another kick in the shins?
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From where I sit - India's star may be slow to ascend
India has long been the "sleeping giant" of Asia. Research in the university sector, stagnant for at least two decades, is now accelerating but it will be a long haul to restore the country as an...
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Tours promise a degree of truth about Argentina's past
Jon Marcus meets the scholarly guides tearing up the Tim Rice lyrics to uncover the real Buenos Aires
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