OECD may fill ‘missing link’ in world rankings
Learning outcomes project aims to get to grips with international teaching comparisons. John Morgan reports
Learning outcomes project aims to get to grips with international teaching comparisons. John Morgan reports
Sector should put ‘its neck on the line’ and take the question on, former government adviser argues. Melanie Newman reports

Former PM opted for ‘interest-free’ student loans to curry favour with the electorate, Charles Clarke testifies. Rebecca Attwood reports
Researchers were wrong to withhold data sought by climate-change sceptics, says information commissioner. Zoë Corbyn writes

In this guide, Tara Brabazon gives her top 10 tips for doctoral failure
First submissions to review of fees and finance describe how costs affect applications. Melanie Newman reports

Graham Farmelo delights in a top physicist's views on science, policy and faith
Nurturing gifted employees will benefit workers and employers - it makes sense to David Orford
In this cleverly constructed book, several of the puzzles of present-day neurology are considered alongside accounts of the lives and times of those with whom they are eponymously associated....
Not only do we not know what the future holds; often we have little idea what the past holds. For Francis Bacon: "Time is like a river, which has brought down to us things light and puffed up, while...
Hidden victims of Stalinist suppression are revealed, finds Harold Shukman
Daniel Miller's Stuff brings together in one compact volume a deftly rewritten and engaging retrospective summary of 30 years of cultural anthropology carried out in the Caribbean, London, India and...

This work's narrow focus misses women's suffering and lack of redress, argues Rosemary Hunter
? = Review forthcomingCLASSICS- New Heroes in Antiquity: From Achilles to AntinoosBy Christopher P. Jones, George Martin Lane professor of the Classics and of history, Harvard University. Harvard...

Lord Mandelson's insistence that universities were merely "crying wolf" over the impact of the new funding cuts would appear to be contradicted by the recent experience of our Director of Finance, Mr...