Tara Brabazon: Going Gaga
Popular culture is dismissed as trash by some academics, but as Lady Gaga – ‘Baudrillard in a bra’ – shows, there’s plenty of intellectual value in the dustbin. Tara Brabazon digs in
Popular culture is dismissed as trash by some academics, but as Lady Gaga – ‘Baudrillard in a bra’ – shows, there’s plenty of intellectual value in the dustbin. Tara Brabazon digs in
IN HIS eagerness to agree with Terry Eagleton's moralising strictures against postmodernism's supposedly arbitrary relativism, Peter Aspden (THES, February 28) did not mention that Eagleton himself...
The argument that students are not being stretched elicits heated replies. Donna Bowater reports
The Body Language
Some say initiative will pay off, others say it is best to invest in schools. Lucy Wheeler and Phil Baty report
Lancaster and Manchester move to give students more time with tutors, writes Rebecca Attwood
Long an icon of popular music, Dusty Springfield is now attracting academic attention for her broader cultural import. Clive Bloom gets into the groove. Myra Hindley looked like her, Amy Winehouse...
As the Olympic flame departs Beijing 2008 and the world's attention shifts to London 2012, UK universities are looking forward to sharing the spotlight. Hannah Fearn reports
2005 fellowships: James Barber , professor of biochemistry, Imperial College London; Martin Barlow , professor of maths, University of British Columbia; Laurence Barron , Gardiner professor of...
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Measures to protect scientists who experiment on animals are being considered by the government. Tougher sentencing for protesters who publish the personal details or target the homes of people...
University of Strathclyde The title of professor emeritus has been conferred on: Kamal Andrawes, civil engineering; David Berry, bioscience and biotechnology; Tom Bone, deputy principal; Roy Burdon,...
People who want to abolish all animal research are being invited by a patients' pressure group to pledge that they will live without treatments developed using the technique. The group, Seriously Ill...
Handbook of Sports Studies
Research into a genetic therapy to treat cystic fibrosis is moving ahead. Clare Sansom reports. For centuries, German folklore has recognised that "the child will die soon, whose forehead tastes...