Hitler's ideal war weapon
Grand Delusion - 1939
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Sucking the life out of the past and flattening history
China and Historical Capitalism
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Zen and the art of road rage
How Emotions Work
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a regal-sounding work by a satirist born in Bengal: " As I write, highly civilised human beings are...
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String section leader
Researchers may be close to understanding thedeepest workings of our universe. Steve Farrar talks to a young scientist whose book about 'the final theory' has persuaded a new generation to brave the...
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That's it, I'm going back to school
Many female academics are deserting universities and retraining as school teachers. Is it the better pay, the promotion prospects or the child-friendly holidays? Helen Hague reports on why it might...
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Imagine you had a Pounds 1.4bn windfall
Actuary Zaki Khorasanee sets out why academics should demand that their pension fund's surplus be used to improve their 'mediocre' rights. I joined the Universities Superannuation Scheme in September...
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'I could say it 1,000 ways and they'd probably all offend'
Never get into a slanging match with a lexicographer, because he'll always have the last word. Nick Groom reports. How do you write a dictionary? Well, Jonathon Green should know. He is an autodidact...
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Don't just talk the talk
Universities are closing language departments nationwide, but some professors are fighting back with exotic courses designed to appeal to reluctant students. Anne Sebba reports. To speak a language...
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Innovative language teaching
California-born Elizabeth Ezra accepted a lecturer's job at Stirling University in Scotland five years ago after taking her PhD at Cornell and teaching in New York. She was attracted to Stirling...
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AoC fears Ofsted will bring 'name and shame' culture to FE
Further education colleges fear they may be entering a "name and shame" culture under the proposed post-16 inspection regime. Delegates at an Association of Colleges consultation conference on the...
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Help is urged for vital sector
The voluntary sector is under threat and needs more help from universities to ensure its long-term survival, the UK's first professor of voluntary sector organisation has warned. Higher education...
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Cubie petition arrives via net
Scottish students are taking democracy into the digital age though a web-based petition to the Scottish Parliament demanding the full implementation of the Cubie report, Olga Wojtas reports. One of...
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Scottish Executive's praised for further education Pounds 6 million childcare costs
The Association of Scottish Colleges has praised the Scottish Executive's "vitally important" proposals of Pounds 6 million towards part-time further education students' childcare costs. Tom Kelly,...