SAT fails to outclass A levels in spotting talent, study finds
A US-style university entrance test would not help identify academic potential among pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds that might be missed by A levels, a major study has found.
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Fees vote set for 9 December
MPs will vote on whether to lift the tuition fees cap next Thursday, with students and university staff set to protest on the eve of the vote.
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Too complex for the jury?
Some think that traditional peer review, the guardian of sound science, is not up to the task of assessing large-scale multidisciplinary research. Paul Jump puts the question to the experts
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Go! Fight! Win!
For the US academy, sport - particularly American football - isn't a matter of life and death: it's much more important than that. David Gewanter discusses the big-money, big-reputation stakes of the...
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Feel the rush
Incisive debate on contemporary issues is curtailed by the glacial pace of academic publishing, argues Tim Luckhurst. Adopting new journalistic models would inject vitality into academics' work
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The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence
Paul Lowe applauds a trenchant defence of photojournalism and the challenges it raises
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Seeds, Sex and Civilization: How the Hidden Life of Plants has Shaped our World
Jonathan Silvertown welcomes a new guide to the science of plants and their not-so-secret sex life
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Them and Us: Changing Britain: Why We Need a Fair Society
Will Hutton is an angry man - angry about the depredations of financial capitalism, angry about a system that offered Lance Bombardier Ben Parkinson, who lost both legs after a landmine exploded in...
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The Canon: Walden; Or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
In my five years lecturing at the University of Wales, Lampeter, I was known as an academic who rarely smiled, joked or enthused about the texts. Walden was the exception - I can never think about...
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Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
Gary Day climbs on to the see-saw of the English Modernist movement and enjoys the ride
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Egypt: A Short History
Robert Tignor, recently retired from a chair in history at Princeton University, has a well-established reputation as a historian of British colonialism in Africa, particularly Egypt, Kenya and...
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Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Americas
Recently I watched a very disturbing film, The Stoning of Soraya M. Based on a true story, the 2008 film depicts the murder in the mid-1980s of an Iranian woman by her husband, her father, her young...
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Stem sell technology
David Hockney's love of digital art is on show at an exhibition in Paris. Julian Stallabrass asks: is it just a fad?
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Daytime TV: The entertainers
Gary Day runs out of excuses and watches The X Factor, only to find he is bemused rather than amused
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Diary
Richmond upon ThamesPicturing ScienceAn exhibition at the Riverside Gallery in Richmond upon Thames (from 4 December to 26 February 2011) explores the collisions and collaborations between the worlds...