'It's the system what done it' - Dave
The two men in sole charge of our university maintenance, "Dave" and "Vince", have admitted that they are dealing with the university's pressing infrastructural crisis by "largely making things up as...
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Marshall Grossman, 1948-2011
Marshall Grossman was a renowned and award-winning Milton scholar who could make people "laugh hard and think harder".He studied for his first degree at the State University of New York, Binghamton,...
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TV review: The Great Estate: The Rise and Fall of the Council House
As the council house dream falls into disrepair, Gary Day sees a spirit of frugality and thrift rekindled
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Film review: Cedar Rapids
Duncan Wu detects smug bigotry in the sourly 'comic' tale of a middle-aged naif's business trip
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Odds and quads
Clement Attlee (1883-1967) served as deputy prime minister in Winston Churchill's wartime coalition government before going on to win a spectacular victory in the general election of 1945.
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Tweet sensations
Tim Birkhead finds a valuable lesson in the story of the bullfinch trainers
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Research intelligence - Flowering in the sandpit
Enthusiastic response to UK-US 'ideas lab' may see photosynthesis research blossom. Paul Jump reports
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Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape
The Catalan artist lauded for his colour, language and playfulness was also, Alex Danchev writes, deeply if quietly concerned with the matter of liberty
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From where I sit - A hub of global ambition
Several factors have helped Kazakhstan grow rapidly in the two decades that it has been an independent country, among them abundant natural resources and proximity to large markets in Europe and Asia...
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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
Newcastle UniversityBabies of obese at more riskWomen who are obese during early pregnancy are at increased risk of their baby dying, according to researchers. Scientists at Newcastle University...
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The week in higher education
David Willetts has supposedly transformed from true blue to scourge of the middle classes in recent months, and changes to student support arrangements unveiled on 14 April sparked renewed fury from...
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21 April 2011
Our better half - Does the bonobo’s peaceable nature disprove the ‘killer-ape’ theory of humanity?
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Leader: Ape market or come together?
The peaceable bonobo, not the aggressive chimp, may offer a better model for human origins and the sector's development
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Prescription to treat real Oxbridge scandal
David Cameron looks fit to give David Lammy a run for his money in terms of ignorant comments about Oxbridge admissions (The week in higher education, 14 April). Migrants everywhere want their...