The lure of the bear hug
The independent state of Belarus has ordered the replacement of all university textbooks on history, literature and the social sciences with material from the Soviet era, in an effort to combat...
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When the peasants are truly revolting
Ged Martin takes a serious look at the historical darlings and devils of English popular culture. As a term of abuse, "populist" is used by intellectuals to reconcile their own elitism with a...
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Admissions tutor Jenny Reed and administrator Pat Graydon of the University of the West of England
(Photograph) - Course countdown: admissions tutor Jenny Reed (right) and administrator Pat Graydon of the University of the West of England match students to places as clearing gets under way.
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Breach in Web security
Queen's University, Belfast is having to check all 1,500 medical photographs held on a pilot orthopaedic teaching database, which until last Friday was linked to the World Wide Web, after a complaint...
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Satanic disabuser
The Freud of her generation or a logical, objective academic? Celia Kitzinger meets anthropologist Jean La Fontaine, author of a controversial report into satanic abuse. Anthropologists are not used...
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Between vision and enquiry
John Newton recollects what it was like to be taught by the two mutually hostile giants of English literary criticism, F. R. Leavis and Harold Mason. No man can serve two masters." A few people have...
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Anna of grand fables
How did the daughter of a German-Polish factory worker who didn't speak Russian convince people she was the child of Tsar Nicholas II? Because, says John Klier, the public wanted to believe in...
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Common health games
Universities should stop pandering to a small elite of athletes and instead promote fitness for the masses by scrapping playing fields in favour of multipurpose indoor sports centres, argues Richard...
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Common health games
"Sport for all is important, but helping the elite and developing excellence is also important. There's always a balancing act, but I don't think the British Universities and Colleges Physical...
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Common health games
"It's very difficult for most universities to put forward a rugby squad to compete at the highest level, because the best players are going to toddle back to wherever their first call is. "But in...
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Common health games
"I endorse the idea of catering for as many people as possible. Obviously we would encourage outstanding talent if it's there, but we're very much into fitness and health for everyone. Any student...
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Common health games
"Birmingham University has produced five of the 1994-95 England women's lacrosse team, and three senior men's hockey internationals last year. But for 55 years it has been supporting sport for the...
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Common health games
"You can call the academy we are planning elitist if you want, but that doesn't worry me. I don't think there is anything wrong with being very good. "The point of the academy is that at 18 there are...
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Beware the Iron Law of Elitism'
It cannot have escaped anybody's attention that students are becoming both relatively and absolutely impoverished. First grants were frozen, and then they were cut, leaving most with too little for...
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Don's Diary
Monday. First day as London regional official for the Association of University Teachers: new job, new home, new city. As you would expect, I feel totally at ease with this situation. There is a...