Making the A level work a little harder
The government wants a return to the past, with more input into the exam process by universities. Rebecca Attwood probes whether the move is welcomed or seen as more ministerial meddling
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Bad news travels slow
Delays to a report on the future of Irish higher education have fuelled unease over its proposals. Having seen a draft of the recommendations, Hannah Fearn gets the academy's verdict
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My Dan Brown moment
The impact agenda came roaring to unruly life for a self-confessed shy bookworm when his work on Plato's 'musical code' drew the attention of the international media. Jay Kennedy tells the tale
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The Rise of 24-Hour News Television: Global Perspectives
As the internet has become not only an important news source, but a force that is rapidly merging traditional news platforms, television, print media and subjective postings, it is somewhat...
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The Autism Matrix
This is a key contribution to a growing body of literature examining the history and cultural meaning of autism. Using a wide variety of data sources, the authors outline a sociology of autism that...
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Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science
The Islamic renaissance laid the foundations for much modern thinking, writes Emilie Savage-Smith
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The 50 Most Extreme Places in Our Solar System
Jim Wild takes a whistle-stop tour of the most mind-blowing destinations in our celestial backyard
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Dishonest to God: On Keeping Religion out of Politics
All readers of this magazine must be aware of the global warming, in recent years, of the dispute between those minded to bring their religious convictions firmly into politics and those determined...
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The Canon: Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism
Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural MaterialismEdited by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan SinfieldPolitical Shakespeare appeared in 1985, alongside a similarly focused collection of essays,...
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Understanding Euroscepticism
Richard Rose admires the clarity with which Europe's growing doubts about integration are outlined
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Unshackling a great notion
Shifting ideas of 'honour' have played a role in atrocities such as foot binding and the slave trade, but the concept can also be used to change entrenched views and end injustices, philosopher Kwame...
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Discerning palette
Alex Danchev salutes the inexplicable mastery of Cézanne, subject of a scrupulous exhibition
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Daytime TV: Darkness lingers
The National Grid spread light, but the unemployed still just hang on in the shadows, learns Gary Day
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Diary
BirminghamQueering the MuseumIt is often assumed, argue the creators of a bold new exhibition at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (4 November to 30 January 2011), that the world is straight, and...
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The Pick - Paraphernalia framing British art
40 Degrees of SeparationThe Goodison Room, Tate BritainLondon until February 2011Established in 1970, the Tate Archive contains more than a million items - diaries, notebooks, letters, sketches,...