Liberal professor to fight Berlusconi
Italian general elections, probable in the summer or autumn, will see a mild-mannered economics professor from Bologna pitted against the media-might of right-wing television tycoon Silvio Berlusconi...
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Balance sheet of stars and gripes
A History of the American People
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Propagate a new ivy variety
The leading British universities should be allowed to privatise themselves, argues Alan Ryan, recently returned from the US. The foul weather that greeted the November 19 Day of Action was all too...
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Aunty's angels
Made Possible By... - The Decline and Fall of Public Service Broadcasting
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Food bad, Russians awesome
Our correspondent and Olympic competitor Jon Wyatt survives a Korean onslaught and Atlanta's traffic gridlock. Sunday July 14 We finally arrive at our Olympic destination - nine months and 38 games...
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Relatives' values
A new study suggests that cultural attitudes may affect perceptions of child sex abuse, adding to the difficulties social work lecturers face in teaching students how to spot and deal with the...
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Prisoners of gender
Women hold only 5 per cent of professorships in the UK. Helena Kennedy examines the different forms of male prejudice which have caused this marginalisation. In the 1860s Sophia Jex-Blake, determined...
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Crowded planet guides
Adult Mortality in Developed Countries - Population and the Environment - How Many People can the Earth Support? - The Stork and The Plow - The Politics of Population
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Whitehall in waiting
FAR FROM being a period of peaceful interregnum, election time is one when civil servants are working almost as furiously as their would-be political masters. Whoever takes office early next week,...
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The 1997 anatomy lesson
January It wasn't a happy new year for those academics in departments rated one and two in the research assessment exercise. They said goodbye to their research hopes as those in departments rated 5...
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Time to be upfront about excellence
Belief that academic excellence is a shield for universities' autonomy is clearly wrong, according to Thorsten Nybom, director of the Swedish Council for Studies of Higher Education in Stockholm. "...
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Balance of power
Source: Getty There seems little doubt that Asia’s star is rising, but reports of its imminent academic hegemony are greatly exaggerated, argues Miguel Lim. “The 21st century will be the Asian...
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Speaking Volumes: The Penguin Pennings
Fred Inglis on Paul Jenning's The Penguin Pennings . In his wonderful essay "Hymns in a man's life" D. H. Lawrence speaks movingly of the great poems which have given shape to his life; but for all...
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Aaron Porter: Shopping around
6 October 2011 Don't blame prospective students for using league tables to weigh up the relative merits of universities, says Aaron Porter. They know that employers have their eyes on the rankings,...
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Brics still finding building blocks
Source: Getty Phil Baty on the patchy performance of the big four developing nations in this year’s rankings The World University Rankings top 200 is unquestionably a rich-world list, dominated by...