From today's UK papers
Independent Ministers have warned Tony Blair that the government must abandon its "control-freak" policy towards public services if its flagship reforms are to work. The controversial A-level reforms...
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Latest international news
Tunisia to launch online university Tunisia is to establish an online university to link institutions within the country and enable partnerships with virtual universities overseas, president Zine El...
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Higher education appointments
City University Patrick Boylan , arts policy and management, has been appointed one of five members of a new Council of Europe working party on Standards for University Heritage. Michael Quine , arts...
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Star names, stellar stuff
Malcolm Longair embarks on a voyage of serendipitous discovery. Astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology are enjoying a golden age. The opening of the electromagnetic spectrum for observations in all...
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Many an oath in stone
The Viking-Age Rune-Stones
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Peeling more veils from the life of Islam
The Archaeology of Islam
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A script open to interpretation - because no one can read it
Deciphering the Indus Script
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Victorian visions imagined and real
The Victorians and the Visual Imagination
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Conversation with the past acquires an ironical twist
Economy, Polity and Society - History, Religion and Culture
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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 by a gothic novelist with a penchant for the macabre: "For the most wild yet most homely...
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Nation baptised in a font of learning
Scholars and Rebels in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
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Emotions stirred sitting in the dark
Film Music
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Imperial tendency lurking in liberalism
Two Faces of Liberalism
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Tricky trading with the enemy
IBM and the Holocaust
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Laurie Taylor column
More and more academics are being declared research inactive in the RAE for strategic reasons - THES, July 6 . Yes, Doctor Cosgrove, do come in. How's the psychology research coming along? You're...