Sharing the World
Reading a really bad translation is a kind of guessing game. At every problematic word or phrase, the reader is obliged to make an intelligent guess at what this might have been in the language of...
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Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction
Niall Ferguson, in his book and Channel 4 series The War of the World (2006), argues that the turbulent history of the 20th century may be largely interpreted as the fallout of various countries'...
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Published this week
ART HISTORY- Art and Communication in the Reign of Henry VIIIBy Tatiana C. String, lecturer in the history of art, University of Bristol. Ashgate, £50.00. ISBN 9780754663058Through in-depth analysis...
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Book of the week: The Big Questions in Science and Religion
Celia Deane-Drummond on where science meets religion
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The week in books
Children of the Revolution: The French 1799-1914 by Robert Gildea, professor of modern history, University of Oxford. Allen Lane, £25.00, ISBN 9780713997606"Gildea is an accomplished interpreter of...
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Pay varies but Europe lags £18K below American mean
Global survey shows up wide variations in career and salary opportunities. John Gill reports
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US losing edge in innovation league
Competitiveness index reveals 'new world order' as Europe and Asia gain. Hannah Fearn reports
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Overseas briefing
JapanDrive to double overseas numbersThe number of overseas students at universities in Japan will more than double if targets the Government has set for the sector are achieved. At present there are...
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Greetings and salutations...
Mrs DilworthPersonal Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor and PresidentUniversity of PoppletonPoppleton RoadPoppleton PP11 WW34Dear Mrs DilworthGreetings and salutations from the 75th International...
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A real piece of the action
Alan Ryan wishes Oxford's big donors would share their financial expertise
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Guest leader: Stop R&D talent going to waste
The creation of an Innovation Index is a long-overdue opportunity to right funding wrongs, argues Les Ebdon
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Bill Clarke, 1943-2008
Bill Clarke, provost of the Jordanstown and Belfast campuses of the University of Ulster for the past six years, died suddenly while officiating at a Police Service of Northern Ireland graduation...
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Oxford warned over sprinkler dangers for book depository
FoI Act flushes out new plans that could risk water damage, reports Melanie Newman
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Marked problem of rewarding status quo 1
Hurrah for Felipe Fernandez-Armesto's assault on marking schemes (Columnist, 24 July). I spent two years as an A-level Edexcel assistant physics examiner. The first, with the various "standardisation...
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Marked problem of rewarding status quo 2
Both Steven Barnett (Opinion, 24 July) and Robin Wilson ("Wondrous games of logic", 24 July) speak for many of the research assessment exercise (RAE)-disenfranchised in referring to how we need some...