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  1. The borders of absurdity and fear

    The EU's ambivalent immigration policy is driven by national insecurity and concern for the welfare state, which the far right exploits, says Andrew Geddes. There are two immigration Europes. One...

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  2. Making it in a mass market

    Critics have called it a 'McUniversity', but Phoenix University, founded by John Sperling (right) could be the most significant provider of mass-education in the world. Stephen Phillips reports....

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  3. We're still skipping (working) class

    In the last in our Pushing 50 series, Alison Wolf suggests that attempts to widen participation in higher education need to focus on schoolchildren long before they embark on A-level study. In 1963,...

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  4. How the mouth took speech away from busy hands

    Did our language evolve from hand gestures, and did we talk our fellow hominids to death? Michael Corballis looks at the evidence. It seems natural to suppose, as Charles Darwin did, that human...

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  5. The cost of losing too many tongues

    Each language is a new map of the world, and our knowledge of the world shrinks when a language dies, writes Andrew Dalby. "Once upon a time," according to the biblical story of Babel, "all the world...

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  6. Silent letters from the past

    Despite some high-profile success stories, deciphering ancient scripts is a long and arduous process in which even the most advanced technology is of only limited use. Andrew Robinson reports. Fifty...

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  7. A tale of a language lost and then found

    A South African land claim led to a search for a native tongue not heard for 30 years. Chris Bunting picks up the trail. In 1974, the N|u language was declared extinct. It was the last of the ancient...

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