Living History: A Family's 19th Century
On 11 May 1812, something unique in English history occurred: the prime minister was assassinated. He was Spencer Perceval, shot dead by John Bellingham, who was tried and hanged within a week of the...
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Global Inequalities and Higher Education: Whose Interests Are We Serving?
As a glance at any issue of this magazine shows, higher education is increasingly a global phenomenon. But globalisation poses particular challenges. Put crudely, is higher education to be a means of...
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Timeless, unlike technology
Exposure to Matisse's dancing forms led Peter Hill to a eureka moment: it is art, not science, that truly evokes the future
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Precision confidently worn
Anne Hogan finds the Merce Cunningham dancers exude technical prowess but also detects diffidence
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Daytime TV: Debts and honour
Chilled by a Faustian tale, Gary Day finds an analysis of the UK's national debt both alarming and alarmist
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Diary
OxfordAlfred Bestall: illustrator of Rupert BearAlthough he also worked as a painter and book illustrator, Alfred Bestall (1892-1986) was most famous for his Rupert Bear comic strip in the Daily...
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The Pick - A game of life and death
Journey through the Afterlife: Ancient Egyptian Book of the DeadThe British Museum, London, until 6 March 2011The British Museum's superb new exhibition includes many astonishing objects, notably the...
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David Malvern, 1946-2010
An internationally renowned leader in science education has died.David Malvern was born in Crosby, Merseyside on 20 October 1946 and won a scholarship to Merchant Taylors' School before reading...
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University of Oxford - Growth spurt
An Oxford college has launched a £17 million fundraising campaign for a major expansion that will include the building of two new quadrangles and a bridge link across a city centre street. As part of...
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Pork chop shock
Our university has expressed "deep shock" at this week's announcement by the Higher Education Funding Council for England that its highly rated degree in Pork Studies will no longer be accredited as...
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The academy's role in A-level 'devaluation' (1 of 2)
Your leader, "Time for a return to entry duty?" (4 November), rightly calls upon universities to play a part in shaping A-level qualifications. But let us not be tempted to join the clamour of voices...
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The academy's role in A-level 'devaluation' (2 of 2)
I disagree with the somewhat dismissive approach to the views of teachers and subject associations taken in your feature, "Making the A level work a little harder" (4 November).The A level is part of...
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Elite, against the odds (1 of 3)
The Browne Report looks likely to leave arts and humanities students with twice the level of fees and some academic departments facing closure ("The shape of things to come", 28 October).Given that "...
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Elite, against the odds (2 of 3)
Universities need to be able to plan in order to deliver high-quality courses. But student choice is likely to be fickle, with income course by course hard to predict from year to year.How will the...
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Elite, against the odds (3 of 3)
If a review chaired by a distinguished literary publisher and president of the British Academy had recommended that government funding for undergraduate teaching be entirely concentrated on the...