Natural mover
Fame Academy winner David Sneddon this week vowed to go to university if his music dream turned sour. The 24-year-old former busker said: "After a year, if it all fails, I'll go to university and...
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Degrees of separation
An Italian mafia boss has discovered that crime has to pay after being refused a discount on his two sons' tuition fees. Bernardo Provenzano, Italy's most wanted criminal, inquired about getting...
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Don's diary: low birth weight - the legacy
Winter 2001 On the crest of a wave. My study of low birth weight (LBW) in North Wales is complete, finding rates as high as 9.9 per cent in some areas. I want to discover why there are no funded...
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Why I ...think blanket vetting of foreign science students will do more harm than good
Last week's House of Commons foreign affairs committee report concludes that laboratories in universities, research institutes and the National Health Service contain dangerous organisms and material...
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Serve the customer
Universities are just another service industry and must respond to the market, says Roger Waterhouse When I went up to university I knew exactly how things stood. I was 18 and considered myself lucky...
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Funding gap still left to bridge
If upfront top-up fees are on hold, where is the money education still needs? asks Stephen Court Next month the government publishes its ten-year strategy review for higher education. Prime minister...
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Drive-thru education serves McNuggets of information
The audit system is turning UK higher education into a vast shopping mall, American sociology professor George Ritzer tells Walter Ellis Small, balding and be-jumpered, George Ritzer looks more like...
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Citizens, you are what you buy
Cultural studies is fighting for its survival in a harsh research marketplace, says Richard Maxwell, while Mica Nava argues that shopping is all part of politics Cultural studies is one of the fields...
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Consumption's potent political purchase
Cultural studies is fighting for its survival in a harsh research marketplace, says Richard Maxwell, while Mica Nava argues that shopping is all part of politics Until the late 1980s, consumption was...
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A fanfare of strumpets for a magical mystery whore
Nigel Barley invites you to enter the Whore of Babylon Experience, a fictional museum tour. Patchouli squirts, orgasmic commentary and multiple virgins await, not to mention your fellow visitors -...
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MLA: Two tribes united by single goal
Literature and anthropology scholars do not always see eye to eye but, writes Stephen Phillips, in thinking about ‘culture’, they share a joint project For James Buzard, associate literature...
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MLA: Sex rescues sad character from clutches of cariacture
Why, asks Jonathan Dollimore, is all theory so easily dismissed as irrelevant because of one or two bad ones? In Maggie Gee’s latest novel, The White Family , there’s a sad character writing a book...
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MLA: When fact and fantasy collide
Is imagination more important than knowledge? Both are crucial to our species’ evolution, argues Kathleen Taylor in a prizewinning essay Berlin, 1929. The poet and journalist George Sylvester Viereck...
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MLA: Widening the lens
The MLA has its annual meeting in New York next week and, in keeping with the post-9/11 mood, it is broadening its reach far beyond the traditional confines of academia, reports Jon Marcus This year’...
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Highlights of the Modern Language Association convention
Controversial academic scholarship in the public sphere after 9/11 8.30am, December 28 Across generational divides: women in the academy&...