At the city's ill heart
The type of welfare-to-work reforms so loved by new Labour will not protect the poor if the economy fails, warns William Julius Wilson, the top authority on US inner-city poverty. He talks to Tim...
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Is an interview really necessary?
Oxbridge still has face-to-face meetings to select students, but most universities have stopped. Marya Burgess looks at how choices are made and what to watch out for More and more universities are...
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Salami slicers taken to task
Richard Nicholson argues that the requirement that most doctors undertake some research pushes them towards unethical behaviour At long last the medical establishment, or parts of it, are beginning...
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Are British academics too obsequious to write good royal history?
Monarchs have been shot, ridiculed, worshipped, even canonised, but they have not made much impact on academics. American and British historians are about to change that British scholars often write...
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Monarchs have been shot, ridiculed, worshipped, even canonised, but they have not made much impact on academics
Monarchs have been shot, ridiculed, worshipped, even canonised, but they have not made much impact on academics. American and British historians are about to change that Over the years kings and...
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Taking a reign check
Portraits of the royal family can tell us much about how their subjects' view them, argues Charles Saumarez Smith George VI is having tea in the Royal Lodge, Windsor with his family. The King is...
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More warrior queen than Mrs Brown
Recent biographers of Queen Victoria have become so familiar with "the private Victoria" that they have neglected the public figure known to her subjects, says Walter Arnstein, professor of history...
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Why the Windsors are more than a tabloid farce
Ben Pimlott tells Harriet Swain why academics should take the British monarchy seriously When Ben Pimlott was preparing his biography of Elizabeth II last year, he ran into a former colleague. "I...
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Secrets in the salary packet
Why can't Britainbe a bit more likethe United States and come clean about everybody's wage rises and merit money, asks Keith Soothill I DID not get a salary rise this year. It did not really surprise...
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Lust among lecturers and lectured
Whether it is in the corridors of power or those of academia what is wrong with romance blossoming between two colleagues, asks Mark Griffiths THE Industrial Society reported recently that 40 per...
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Don's Diary
Monday Our second examination week, so we will expect a fair few panicking students in the counselling service where I work. We are all aware of this, and will be looking out for them despite heavy...
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Channel to wider horizons
When I graduated from University College London in 1959, virtually the only non-British students I had met were from the Commonwealth and North America, and it was mostly to the latter that we went...
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It makes you want to turn off your bleeper
The modern political journalist does not need an electronic message bleeper to be told what to think and write. He or she simply regurgitates the last article on the chosen subject. After several...
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Appointments
Public Management and Policy Association. Michael Bichard, permanent secretary at the Department for Education and Employment has been appointed chair of the policy board by the association; the vice...
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Awards
Scientific Committee of the European Amalfi Prize. The committee for sociology and social sciences has awarded the Amalfi Prize to Martin Albrow, professor in the school of sociology and social...