Irish teacher failed to foresee his fate
I was amused to read recent Nobel prizewinner Sir John Gurdon’s account of his “crippling school report”, which included the statement: “I believe he has ideas about becoming a Scientist; on his...
I was amused to read recent Nobel prizewinner Sir John Gurdon’s account of his “crippling school report”, which included the statement: “I believe he has ideas about becoming a Scientist; on his...
It is academics who will have ultimate responsibility for ensuring that students get a “higher” - not merely a “further” or a “secondary” - education in the new-style English higher education sector...
One looks to the humanities and the social sciences for rational analysis of human affairs. How astonishing, then, that a dean of arts and social sciences cannot distinguish between the justice of a...
My, that was a smug little piece by Felipe Fernández-Armesto (“Dens of inequity”, Opinion, 21 March). Apparently in his youth there was “no shame and no attested harm in a priest pinching a choirboy’...
Lisa Downing’s mantelpiece is truly terrifying (“‘Monsters, never mirrors’”, Culture, 21 March). Perhaps she has a bone to pick with her interior designer.Name and address supplied

Duncan Wu savours the cadence and nuance that a superb cast bring to this portrayal of the relationship between art and life

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

James T. Crouse on a book that should be on every politician’s reading list

Harriet Harriss discusses a paragon of joined-up thinking

John Pollard on a biography of a controversial head of the Catholic Church

Ursula King on the use and meaning of the absence of noise in religious beliefs and practices

Luciana Astiz on how seismology evolved from the combined observations of scientists and citizens

Roger Rees on gaining some understanding of the linguistic and literary richness of Latin poetry without knowing the language

Matthew Feldman on the connections between literary history and intelligence studies

Universities should vet research outputs before they get to the publishing (and scandal) stage, say Roger Watson and Mark Hayter