Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East
Western meddling in foreign lands ... Moshe Behar wonders if it's worth a read by a certain Mr Obama
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Thorold Dickinson: A World of Film
The once-neglected topic of British cinema has undergone such a sustained re-evaluation over the last ten years or so that there remain few nooks and crannies that have not been brought into the...
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Republic of Drivers: A Cultural History of Automobility in America
Despite the American automobile industry's catastrophic decline in popularity, profits and market share, there has been no shortage of scholarly analyses of its historical importance. If pioneering...
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Moreschi and the Voice of the Castrato
A discerning study of the legacy of the last of the papal castrati resonates with Martha Feldman
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- Animal Experimentation: A Guide to the IssuesBy Vaughan Monamy, senior lecturer in environmental science and environmental ethics, Australian Catholic...
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Government raises funding to £7.8 billion
2009-10 grant letter reveals 9.8 per cent increase over previous year. John Gill reports
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Leeds Met fees set to rise after v-c resigns
Dissent over higher charges may have influenced Simon Lee's decision to go, writes Melanie Newman
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From where I sit - Pariah status for informal experts
He is a sprightly 77-year-old schoolteacher who has spent his life discovering ancient painted rock shelters in an area of central India called Narsinghgarh.Yet few outside the small town where he...
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Targett blames students
Statistics showing that Poppleton had come last in the Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey have been dismissed as "unreliable, invalid, partial, misleading and seriously out-of-date" by...
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We need collaboration, not concentration 1
Michael Arthur, the vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds, fears that the loss of a "critical mass" at the research-intensive universities will damage Britain's research environment, leading to...
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We need collaboration not concentration 2
Am I the only one who squirmed with embarrassment at the plea for mercy by Michael Arthur as he feared sharing the post-RAE quality-related funding pot with "less" research-intensive universities?He...
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Euthanasia is ethical option 1
Soran Reader, who is facing risky neurosurgery, is not overstating matters when she argues that it is wrong that patients in the UK cannot ask for euthanasia ("It is monstrously wrong that patients...
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Euthanasia is ethical option 2
Until recently I was a higher education lecturer. I now have advanced breast cancer and anticipate a difficult death. Reassurances about pain relief and symptom control do not help the distress I...
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Education's true nature
I wonder if Eddie Blass was intending to be funny in serving up a perfect business definition of liberal education ("Nurture all-round talents", 15 January). She will certainly have displeased few...
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Olek Zienkiewicz, 1921-2009
Olek Zienkiewicz, the civil engineer acclaimed as the father of the "world-changing" computational modelling technique known as the Finite Element Method, has died.Although born in Caterham, Surrey...