Unexpurgated version
Debowdlerising a text to reveal the writer's 'original' intentions is not as simple as it might seem, Josephine Guy argues
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Diary
ManchesterThe 21st Century Library: A Physical or Virtual Place?If books are on the way out, do we still need libraries as key physical landmarks within our cities and learning communities? Although...
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Saving our bacon
In a move that Janet Fluellen, our Director of Curriculum Development, described as "profoundly logical", the Department of Social Sciences at our university will soon be merged with the Department...
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Gordon Stone, 1925-2011
Gordon Stone is remembered as an inspirational, competitive, driven chemist who had a "boyish enthusiasm" for his subject and a strong desire to help his co-workers achieve their best - something...
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TV review: What's the Point of Forgiveness?
Gary Day finds that forgiveness can be a recreation of ourselves and of those whom have done us harm
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Film review: Hanna
A teenage girl assassin and out-of-control technology serve to amuse but also irritate, surmises Duncan Wu
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Mission creep as US spends, spends, spends on the extras
Study rejects claim that sector allocates more to education than it receives in fees. Jon Marcus writes
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We expected much more
David Willetts, advocate for the arts? Nothing like it, accuses Sally Feldman
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Odds and quads
If this shoe looks good enough to eat that is hardly surprising - it is made of cheese.
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Research intelligence - Let's dig a little deeper
Humanities set to benefit from second round of international digitisation project. Hannah Fearn reports
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The Pick - The Fat Girl Gets a Haircut and Other Stories
Innocence and experience
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From where I sit - High scores in the wrong game
Does the world revolve around world university rankings?I asked myself this question recently when I attended a national seminar on higher education in Serbia. One of the university rectors told me...
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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 OxfordLifeline for languageResearchers are in a race against time to document a dying language that is now spoken by only three people. Suriel Mofu, from the University of Oxford's...
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The week in higher education
A claim that 36,000 student places could be chopped to allow for the additional cost of subsidising tuition fee loans in 2012 prompted a rash of stories about policy chaos on 20 April. Ed Miliband,...