Film review: Jane Eyre
Despite reservations about yet another version of a classic story, Duncan Wu enjoys a faithful rendition
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Paul Wilkinson, 1937-2011
A leading international expert on terrorism, equally adept at offering his insights to academic audiences, policymakers or the public, has died.Paul Wilkinson was born in Harrow, Middlesex and...
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Ten years after 9/11, terror studies run on ideals and ready cash
Interdisciplinary alliances, job-seekers and patriots fuel growth in US scholarship, reports Jon Marcus
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Appointments
University of NottinghamBob WebbA leading expert on reproductive biology has received the prestigious Marshall Award from the Council of the Society for Reproduction and Fertility, awarded for work...
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Odds and quads
This glass and steel cross, which now stands at the heart of the University of Chester's main campus on Parkgate Road, was originally created as an anguished response to the political climate of the...
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Research Intelligence - Turn on, tune in and make waves
Academics with a hankering to shine on radio now have their opportunity. Paul Jump reports
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Leader: It's lost control again
As poor steering threatens to cut off the supply of homegrown STEM graduates, coalition policy looks set to crash and burn
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From where I sit - Few Dutch treats in globalisation
When it came at us from the margins, it caught most of us lecturers in the political science department on our blind side. The first stage of the Anglo-Saxon takeover appeared innocent enough: some...
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Brazil invests to expand tropic of learning into rural areas...
...but some question the focus and quality in plans to add more than 800,000 places, writes Paul Jump
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Campus round-up
University of RoehamptonValuable depositsLemur droppings may hold the key to the survival of Madagascar's unique rainforests. A new study by academics at the University of Roehampton found that the...
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Off Piste - The Anarchic view from the hutch
When an anthropologist and her partner were arrested on the eve of the royal wedding for planning an anti-monarchy mock execution, the incident ended up on YouTube - and the footage revealed concern...
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The week in higher education
• First the dodgy dossier, now the dodgy doctorate: Tony Blair and unreliable material are inadvertently together again. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of Mu'ammer Gaddafi, sought out Mr Blair's...
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Taking Lithuanian leave
Malcolm Gillies asks: how much time off do we really need or deserve?
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8 September 2011
Dead as a… - Is the writing on the wall for journalism?