Call for more access data
The access regulator will be unable to monitor the fairness of university admissions without more information on students' circumstances, a conference held today at the London School of Economics...
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Forgery probe
A medic at Imperial College London may face disciplinary action after forging the signatures of seven colleagues as authors of a published paper. The college began an inquiry after the New England...
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Tobacco ban claim
Strathclyde University says its research was at the heart of the ban on tobacco advertising that comes into force today. Its Centre for Social Marketing established a link between tobacco advertising...
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Complementary gift
The Peninsula Medical School has received a donation of £500,000 to fund its chair in complementary medicine, held by Edzard Ernst. The donation, from the Maurice Laing Foundation, is the second gift...
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Now class, let's get that down in writing
Is literacy in decline? Harriet Swain looks at efforts to improve student writing It has become a common gripe among lecturers that students no longer know how to construct an academic argument in an...
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Reader, you are not welcome
Is literacy in decline? Alan Sinfield bridles at narrow lit crit's sidelining of audiences Twenty years ago today, it was plausible to debate the principles that might underlie literary reading. In...
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Can we build an urban utopia?
The city should be a sphere of active democratic participation, argues David Harvey, but to achieve this, we must roll back the huge wave of privatisation The city, the noted urban sociologist Robert...
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Resting place for heads of state
Royal death masks, revolutionary corpses and grisly, sensationalistic tableaux of gruesome murders. At Madame Tussaud's, Pamela Pilbeam found a remarkable historical archive, not just Kylie Minogue...
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Cooking for terrorists
To understand terrorism, we must get close to terrorists, says Rohan Gunaratna, who has talked with Tamil Tigers, drunk with IRA men and discussed the Koran with Taliban fighters In 1984 I...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work recommended by both left and right: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were...
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A meeting of tongues
Contact Linguistics
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The high fliers on edge of anarchy
Secret Classrooms
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Putting secret justice on trial
Open Justice
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Talk of tort law as a tool for tortured
Torture as Tort
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Diversity bike wobbles as the training wheels come off
Silence at Boalt Hall