Second nature
A conference next week in Glasgow aims to get nation speaking unto nation on the subject of English. John Davies reports. If there is one place British insularity will be firmly resisted next week,...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an author who had an unhealthy connection with the railways: "My reason will still not understand why I pray, but I shall still pray, and my life, my whole life,...
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Speaking Volumes: Fontana History of Europe
Jeremy Black on the Fontana History of Europe series. History in your pocket. Growing up, I was very dependent for books on my local library. The shelves of Edgware library took me from Sutcliffe and...
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Students get clearance for HE
A record number of courses have been offered through clearing this year, a total of 14,500 compared with 11,000 last year. In all 211,678 students have so far accepted places compared to 197,971 by...
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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...