Bonanza or bust
Universities report a frenzy of applications through clearing, but thousands of students will be left with nothing
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Congratulations, now hurry up and wait
Today’s A-level results are yet again better than last year’s, but because of the government-imposed cap on student numbers, good results won’t guarantee a university place
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Doubts over Roberts cash ‘damaging’, says Vitae
Researchers fear for future of £20m careers funding. Zoe Corbyn reports
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Scarred for life?
The recession has intensified competition for university places, with degrees more vital than ever for gaining an advantage in a tough job market. As clearing begins, will the 'lost generation' be...
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Forget Me Not (but remember me warts and all)
Far too often, obituaries are drab and sanitised affairs, so Matthew Reisz asks scholars how they might word their own death notices
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Unsuitable candidates
Brilliant thinker, shame about the suit: dossiers retrieved by Belagir M. Synkina reveal academic search committees' encounters with genius
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Leader: Anthem for doomed youth
The Government is all at sea. Its wave of contrary policies mean it is in danger not only of losing a generation but of squandering it
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Book of the week: - What Intelligence Tests Miss
A high IQ doesn't always make for smart choices, Wendy Johnson finds
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Blood and Mistletoe
The tale of Druidry and Welsh national identity is one of humour and humanity, finds Timothy Mowl
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Spooks: The Unofficial History of MI5
This is a solid book, ambitious in the scope of its content and thorough in every aspect of espionage in Britain, from the creation of MI5 in 1909 to our present world of Big Brother surveillance,...
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The Canon: The Madwoman in the Attic
The Madwoman in the Attic By Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan GubarDuring the late 1970s at Columbia University, we used to play a game called Humiliation. Would-be scholars racked up points by confessing...
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Free radical
Matthew Reisz interviews George Scialabba, the Harvard provocateur with independent views who fears the death of the public intellectual
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Consuming Traditions: Modernity, Modernism, and the Commodified Authentic
Rebecca Leach is drawn into an exploration of how commercial interests affected late Victorians
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Published this week
CULTURAL STUDIES- Learning at the Museum Frontiers: Identity, Race and PowerBy Viv Golding, lecturer in museum studies, University of Leicester. Ashgate, £55.00. ISBN 9780754646914Golding argues that...
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Kenneth MacLeod, 1963-2009
Kenneth MacLeod, an authority on diabetes who was closely involved in the creation of the Peninsula Medical School, has died.He was born on 17 February 1963 in Falkirk, Scotland, and received his...