Tuition fees will reap Pounds 126 million
CHARGING students tuition fees will push up total resources for higher education by Pounds 126 million next year, according to funding council estimates. Announcing the amount of cash available to...
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Women paid less than male peers
WOMEN staff are undervalued in universities according to early results from pilot studies into job ranking, writes Harriet Swain. Data submitted by the London Institute, Heriot-Watt and Oxford...
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Head turner
(Photograph) - Peter Dunne is one of the students from the North Wales School of Art and Design at the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education who have created some terracotta warriors. Based...
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Core blimey! Was apple man gay?
Isaac Newton
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Fishy frolics in Athens
Courtesans and Fishcakes
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Lacking a quantum leap
Albert Einstein
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Sorting history from hysteria
Rereading German History 1800-1996
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Cruel cousins or blood brothers?
Stalinism and Nazism
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an especially "wonderful" book by a palaeontologist: "Not since the Lord...
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Turkey with intellectual trimmings
Who would you invite to Christmas dinner? Katrina Wishart asked five academics to nominate their festive favourites Harry Kroto In The Ascent of Man, Jacob Bronowski describes an incident during...
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Unwanted presence
A ghost is troubling the fellows of Peterhouse, Cambridge. Elaine Williams reports One evening last spring one of the fellows of Peterhouse, Cambridge, was hosting a private dinner in a parlour above...
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Gold, Frankincense and Ur
Julia Hinde talks to the academics who have created this year's most clever gifts On the shelves of children's books, nestling between Joanna Spyri's Heidi and Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure...
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It's the way he tells them
Does one virgin birth, a few awed shepherds and a gang of loud angels make a good but implausible story, or a major chapter in divine revelation?Elaine Williams asked theologians for their views of...
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A place at the table of despair
Eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia have been hijackedby cultural studies academics and theorised to abstraction, argues Susie Orbach. Bingeing and vomiting are expressions of women's...
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From outrage to cant
David Cesarani argues that Swiss banks hid looted Jewish gold not because they were Nazis but because business is business The recent London conference on "Nazi gold" brought together from 40...