Court upholds findings of ‘fruitbatgate’ investigation
The Irish High Court has ruled that the findings of an investigation by University College Cork into the academic at the centre of the “fruitbatgate” affair should stand.
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SAT fails to outclass A levels in spotting talent, study finds
A US-style university entrance test would not help identify academic potential among pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds that might be missed by A levels, a major study has found.
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Fees vote set for 9 December
MPs will vote on whether to lift the tuition fees cap next Thursday, with students and university staff set to protest on the eve of the vote.
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Too complex for the jury?
Some think that traditional peer review, the guardian of sound science, is not up to the task of assessing large-scale multidisciplinary research. Paul Jump puts the question to the experts
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Go! Fight! Win!
For the US academy, sport - particularly American football - isn't a matter of life and death: it's much more important than that. David Gewanter discusses the big-money, big-reputation stakes of the...
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Feel the rush
Incisive debate on contemporary issues is curtailed by the glacial pace of academic publishing, argues Tim Luckhurst. Adopting new journalistic models would inject vitality into academics' work
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The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence
Paul Lowe applauds a trenchant defence of photojournalism and the challenges it raises
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Seeds, Sex and Civilization: How the Hidden Life of Plants has Shaped our World
Jonathan Silvertown welcomes a new guide to the science of plants and their not-so-secret sex life
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Them and Us: Changing Britain: Why We Need a Fair Society
Will Hutton is an angry man - angry about the depredations of financial capitalism, angry about a system that offered Lance Bombardier Ben Parkinson, who lost both legs after a landmine exploded in...
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The Canon: Walden; Or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
In my five years lecturing at the University of Wales, Lampeter, I was known as an academic who rarely smiled, joked or enthused about the texts. Walden was the exception - I can never think about...
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Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
Gary Day climbs on to the see-saw of the English Modernist movement and enjoys the ride
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Egypt: A Short History
Robert Tignor, recently retired from a chair in history at Princeton University, has a well-established reputation as a historian of British colonialism in Africa, particularly Egypt, Kenya and...
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Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Americas
Recently I watched a very disturbing film, The Stoning of Soraya M. Based on a true story, the 2008 film depicts the murder in the mid-1980s of an Iranian woman by her husband, her father, her young...
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Stem sell technology
David Hockney's love of digital art is on show at an exhibition in Paris. Julian Stallabrass asks: is it just a fad?
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Daytime TV: The entertainers
Gary Day runs out of excuses and watches The X Factor, only to find he is bemused rather than amused