Handful of elite schools dominate Oxbridge admissions
Five high-flying schools sent more students to Oxbridge in a three-year period than 2,000 other UK schools and colleges combined, a report by the Sutton Trust has revealed.
Search
-
-
The aesthetically pleasing game
Watching sport is an intellectual pursuit, contests football fan Stephen Mumford - but only if you don't mind which team wins
-
Pucker up, piglets
Having made a pig of university funding, the government had to dress it up. But who will be seduced by a brazen shade of 'Student Experience' lipstick or the White Paper's other blandishments?...
-
The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History
Donald MacRaild is impressed by a new spin on British imperialism, seen through the eyes of siblings
-
Love: A History
Jane O'Grady is partially seduced by a provocative polemic that offers contrasting notions of ardour
-
Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe
No one who witnessed the recent ceremony to beatify the late Pope John Paul II - when his exhumed coffin lay before the altar of St Peter's, while a vial of his blood was displayed in an elaborate...
-
Public history centre hopes to get the records straight
Digital archives must balance outreach, financial viability and scholarship, Matthew Reisz hears
-
Artistic movement: new space sets stage for a creative reinvention
Central St Martins is preparing both itself and its students for the future, its head tells Matthew Reisz
-
Teachers share their tales of marking meltdown
It is the "whining season": a time of year when academics give up their evenings, weekends and any hope of restful free time to mark papers - only to find their efforts undervalued by managers and...
-
News in brief
SwedenOverseas students go AWOLForeign students at Swedish universities are committing widespread visa fraud by not attending classes, a report suggests. The Swedish Migration Board, which conducted...
-
EU's for-profit providers risk sub-prime 'overpush'
Simon Baker reports on the dangers of unregulated selling practices among Europe's private institutions
-
Chinese PM wins accolade for research investment
The premier of China, Wen Jiabao, has been awarded the King Charles II Medal by Britain's Royal Society for "one of the most ambitious national research investment programmes the world has ever seen".
-
A class half full: Australia's missing indigenous scholars
Simon Baker reports on a high-profile review of low levels of Aboriginal entry to university study
-
Grant winners
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCILFellowship awards• Award winner: K. Vlassopoulos• Institution: University of Nottingham• Value: £58,988Greeks and barbarians: connected histories (Archaic-...
-
National performance in immunology
National performance in immunologyData provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, 2000-10Top countries by number of highly cited papersTop countries by citations to highly...