Limited choice
Steve West’s contention that students need wide-ranging information to make their choice of university and course would be welcome if he were not simultaneously undermining it (“Working class law...
Steve West’s contention that students need wide-ranging information to make their choice of university and course would be welcome if he were not simultaneously undermining it (“Working class law...
Pauline McGovern makes a good point about vivas (“Harsh interrogation”, Letters, 2 May). Their main purpose is to establish that candidates understand their work and can explain it in the context of...
In his review of Peter Mandler’s Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War, Chris Knight characterises as “nonsense” Mead’s belief that the swaddling...

Tate Modern exhibition AxMe shows African American artist talking back to race and gender history


Philip Kemp on how the American film industry reacted variously to the rise of fascism in Germany

Biancamaria Fontana on the influences that shaped a French aristocrat’s ambiguous view of democracy from his studies of the American model

James Stevens Curl on a summary of Kircher’s hieroglyphic studies in the context of 17th-century scholarship on paganism and oriental languages

Euan Clarkson is inspired by a detailed history and guide to the richest cluster of fossilised remains

“Me, ugly? My Jimmy Choos make me feel BEAUTIFUL,” ran the headline in the Daily Mail’s Femail section on 9 May, above an article by Mary Beard, professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge,...

Naked impactOne of our leading psychologists, Dr Fritz Itzig, is currently languishing in a police cell after a day-long series of attempts to increase the research impact of his work on short-term...

Graduates from 1994 Group members are more likely than those of any other mission group to go on to taught postgraduate study, research has found

More than 350 people, including several academics, have signed a petition protesting against the University of Leeds’ treatment of an international postgraduate student

Lab audits could demonstrate integrity, 3rd World Conference on Research Integrity hears. By Elizabeth Gibney

Event on academic freedom identifies ‘one-sided far-leftist agitprop’