The Pick - Voewood Festival
Credit: GettyThe Dandy Highwayman: Stuart Goddard, also known as Adam AntVoewood FestivalHigh Kelling, NorfolkVoewood, later known as Home Place, is a celebrated Arts and Crafts residence built...
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Home thoughts from abroad
Evidence that phone hacking may now be endemic on our campus is provided by this recently released transcript of a relatively intimate conversation between Professor Lapping of the Department of...
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TV review: Horizon: Seeing Stars
The mysteries of the star-spangled firmament are endlessly fascinating to us, says Gary Day
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Film review: One Day
Will Brooker on a skilful adaptation that shows how in the midst of life, love and laughter we are in death
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Erol Erduran, 1932-2011
A pioneering educator, teaching at all levels, Erol Erduran played an instrumental role in the foundation of the first Turkish Cypriot university in Northern Cyprus.Throughout his career, he was...
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Appointments
University College LondonMichael WortonAn English academic has been honoured with an award usually reserved for French nationals. Michael Worton, vice-provost (international) and Fielden professor of...
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Odds and quads
In the gruesome or grimly comic medieval Dance of Death, skeletons or decaying corpses are depicted rounding up the living.
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Congratulations to us on our fine RAE results, staff and, er, students
Degree ceremonies have become shameless branding exercises in which graduates are mere afterthoughts, laments Susan Bassnett
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Research intelligence - Breaking through the glass ceiling
A new initiative aims to tackle the 'leaky pipeline' for women in UK science, reports Nicola Davis
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High-profile titles lead the field in number of retractions
Analysis reveals higher rates of withdrawn research papers for top science journals. Paul Jump reports
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From where I sit - Big Mac education
Almost 20 per cent of students studying for British first degrees do not reside in the UK, but rather study at one of the country's 13 branch campuses or, more likely, via franchise arrangements:...
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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 LiverpoolAnger managementGetting angry at work may not usually be the route to a promotion, but research suggests that in one industry it is a vital part of getting the job done. The...
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The week in higher education
• Another year brought another improvement in the A-level pass rate, which reached 97.8 per cent, up from 97.6 per cent in 2010. Just as predictable was the flood of advice that followed on what...
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25 August 2011
Anarchy in the UK - With the collapse of the old fees regime, confusion reigns across the land