Belarus professor jailed by regime
The arrest and imprisonment of Belarusian physics professor and pro-democracy activist Yury Khadyka has attracted protests from human rights activists worldwide. Although only a ten-day prison term...
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Minister tackles poor first-degree pass rate
France has one of the lowest pass rates in the developed world for students taking their first university diploma because their courses do not include general culture and they have to specialise too...
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Serial plagiarist forced to quit
By the time Monash University vice-chancellor David Robinson stepped off the plane at Heathrow on July 10 on his way to the official opening of a Monash centre at King's College London, the...
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In the news: Sir Brian Follett
Sir Brian Follett chaired the Royal Society committee that this week recommended the vaccination of animals at risk of developing foot-and-mouth disease. If the animals are then found to be disease-...
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Don's diary: older and wiser?
February 1981 Dundee: a notice in the Students' Association asks volunteers to audition for University Challenge . A series of questions from previous games whittles hopefuls down to the team, plus...
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Derring-do of the DNA diva
Rosalind Franklin
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Freedoms threatened - let's go shopping
British Cultural Studies - A Companion to Cultural Studies
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Two shirts, one arm, three wings
Greenwich
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An illuminating space for those wayward pleasures
John Ashbery and American Poetry
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Piecing together the archaeologist
Arthur Evans's Travels in Crete 1894-1899
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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 book that ends with the escape of a pterodactyl: "Mr Hungerton, her father, really was the most...
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A tragedy tainted by the morose and trivial
Remembering for the Future: The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide - The Holocaust Encyclopaedia
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Laurie Taylor column
Lapping speaking. Professor Lapping. It's Jane Seligman. Professor Lapping, I'm not there. You're not where, Jane? On the list. I came in yesterday after my holiday and went to the board to look at...
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Scotland's principal prima donna
The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama's new head envisages it becoming a cultural powerhouse for Scotland. Olga Wojtas reports. "I've never had a job before," says John Wallace, the new...
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A theme park for the Brits behaving badly
In the second in our summer series on tourism, Hazel Andrews looks at how much of the lewd, boozy, seemingly fancy-free behaviour of many tourists in the area of Majorca known as 'Shagaluf' is...