Accounting for the lost communities of scholars
Calling Academia to Account
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New life amid chaos
Realizing the University in an Age of Supercomplexity
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A Chrysler in the hobo jungle
In Plato's Cave
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Policies are not the best policy
Closing the Gender Gap
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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 whose dystopian vision has enthralled generations of teenage readers: "A squat grey building of...
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Hearing around corners
Paul Gilroy wants to kill off the concept of race and ditch anti-racist policies. Nick Groom meets the 'professor of hip-hop' to talk about why black nationalists will hate his most recent book and...
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I love you to death
Jealousy is often seen as a neurosis that can lead to psychotic violence, but psychologist David Buss argues that it is a form of emotional wisdom that evolved as an early-warning system. Jealousy...
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Students politicise before they accessorise
How much does your university make from its branded sweatshirts? And are they made by sweatshop labour? Tim Cornwell reports on an issue galvanising students in the US. When 20 students invaded the...
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Presidents, poker and a fear of fat
Did you hear the one about the US president, the fat king and the radio psychiatrist? selects the highlights from this year's British Association of American Studies conference at University of Wales...
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Maybe I'll skip the frog's legs
Why are the world's frogs disappearing at an unprecedented rate? Ayala Ochert reports on a global initiative to find the culprit. All over the world, frogs are disappearing. From the back gardens of...
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Higher Channels
John Davies appraises the broadcasting week (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week To celebrate Shakespeare's birthday (April 23) Radio 3 has scheduled a day of programmes, while BBC1 has a...
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Riga
Maija Pohodneva, a journalism student at the University of Latvia, has become the first Latvian woman to publish a crime fiction novel. The book was written in three months in 1999 as "therapy...
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Beyond our Ken
(Photograph) - Beyond our Ken: a statute of Kenneth Barker has been erected at De Montfort University where he was vice-chancellor from 1987 to 1999. Photograph by MIKE SEWELL.
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Time team
(Photograph) - Time team: Exeter University's department of lifelong learning has introduced a modular certificate in archaeology. Students, such as Shirley Ryan (pictured), can accumulate credits...
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He's a card
(Photograph) - He's a card: drama student Matthew McGurk from Liverpool John Moores University has been voted best young magician by the Magic Circle. Photograph by CHRIS THOMOND.