Ministers have pledged Pounds 17 million to help schools and colleges prepare for the introduction of the new advanced level Key Skills qualification. The money, which comes in addition to the Pounds...
I Am No Longer Myself Without
Another Round at the Pillars - Grub Street and the Ivory Tower
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a work whose title is taken from the hebrew term for Beelzebub: " The boy with the fair hair...
The Eloquence of the Vulgar - Youth, Popular Culture and Moral Panics
Mind, Language and Society
Henry James and Sexuality
Cracking Codes
Becoming Human
Mapping and Naming the Moon
John Davies takes one small step into the week's broadcasting schedules (all times pm unless stated). Friday July 16 Real Time Apollo (1.00 C4) and Moon Landing Live (7.00, 9.00 and 12.45am UK...
In the second of a series on academic chances abroad, Simon Poole tells how big opportunities without 'old-school ties' lured him down under, and Julia Hinde (below) gives the low-down on job...
Certainly, say some academics who argue that even liberal societies constrain people's sexual choices. Jennifer Currie reports Is the right to choose and express your sexuality a fundamental human...
Chinua Achebe, author of 'the most cited book in African literature', tells Jennifer Wallace of life in exile Chinua Achebe dreams of home every day. "I can't imagine a situation in which Nigeria...