The Pick - You Can't Take It With You
You Can't Take It With YouRoyal Exchange, ManchesterUntil 14 January 2012The extended Sycamore clan are the ultimate lovably eccentric family. Grandpa Vanderhof, the head of the household, gave up a...
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Best at nothing - again
For the seventh year in a row, our university failed to win a single award of any kind at the Times Higher Education Awards in London's luxurious Grosvenor House Hotel.Despite entering in a record...
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TV review: Churches: How to Read Them
The Church was the heart of medieval life, says Gary Day, full of symbolism, beauty and grotesqueries
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Film review: Mysteries of Lisbon
This set of melodramatic interconnected tales is a visual delight - but take a cushion, says Duncan Wu
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Julia Swindells, 1951-2011
Julia Swindells was a "reluctant academic star" who, despite making Cambridge her home, "always remained a Northerner in her heart".Professor Swindells was born in Macclesfield on 13 August 1951, and...
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Appointments
London Metropolitan UniversityCécile TschirhartLondon Metropolitan University has appointed its first dean of students to act as a "champion of the student experience". Cécile Tschirhart was...
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Odds and quads
John Hunter (1728-93) has been called the "father of modern surgery", since he was the first to apply a truly scientific methodology to the medical procedure.
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Research intelligence - No Frozen assets, but plenty to see
The Open University's pro v-c for research on impact, doctorates and the digital space. Paul Jump reports
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1994 Group: U-Multirank will do UK a disservice
A European Commission-funded project to compare universities is “unlikely to further boost the profile of UK institutions and may actually confuse the picture for prospective applicants”, the 1994...
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Leader: Soul path to course corrections
In a reformed sector, marketers should play a role in the creation of degrees - but academics must remain in charge of the process
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From where I sit - Failed state of education
For far too long, Nigeria's leaders have ignored the hidden factors underpinning the dismal performance of the country's university system.Recently, the newspapers quoted Namadi Sambo, Nigeria's vice...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Campus round-up
University of LiverpoolTurn the page on painA new research centre will explore how reading can help sufferers of serious health conditions including depression, dementia and chronic pain. The...
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The week in higher education
• A journalism lecturer and former News of the World reporter arrested in connection with the phone-hacking scandal says she has "never been involved in the interception of telecommunications"....
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Bless us with a silent night
Felipe Fernández-Armesto finds little joy in Christmas hymns and carols