
Search
-

-
Senior disservice
As a University of Cambridge graduate in June 2012 at the ripe old age of 64, I, too, take great exception to Jeremy Paxman’s harrumphing and growling at the mature students on University Challenge (...
-
In the clear with clarity
I was disappointed to read that the rise in the complexity and number of complaints and academic appeals relating to students’ marks is being reported as a result of the rise in tuition fees (“Marked...
-
Very rich tones
Re: Patricia Smyth’s letter “High and arbitrary fees” (23 January) about the British Museum’s practice of charging steep fees for the use of images it holds.We have experienced this in relation to...
-
Keep opportunities alive
I am concerned to learn that the plans to reduce the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills budget may require a significant reduction in the student opportunity fund.Many institutions use...
-
Facts behind the numbers
As any good undergraduate journalism or public relations student knows, there are lies, damn lies and statistics.The article “Booms and busts follow in the wake of big bang” (23 January) on full-time...
-

Bruce Scharlau, Zenon Stavrinides, Roy Turner, James Underwood and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
-

More managers please!
“It’s only five new chairs. Only one more than the University of York.”That was how Janet Fluellen, our Director of Curriculum Development, responded to suggestions from reporter Keith Ponting (30)...
-

Celibacies: American Modernism and Sexual Life, by Benjamin Kahan
Laura Frost on a portrayal of abstinence not as an absence of sex, but as an organisation of pleasure
-

Shakin’ All Over: Popular Music and Disability, by George McKay
Anna Hickey-Moody on study of how performers have addressed disability in their compositions and performances
-

Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect, by Matthew D. Lieberman
Tristan Bekinschtein welcomes a work showing that research into who we are can be based on science
-

Sex and Sexuality in Classical Athens, by James Robson
Barbara Graziosi discovers what went on in the bedroom in ancient Greece
-

Mixed Emotions: Beyond Fear and Hatred in International Conflict, by Andrew A. G. Ross
Gregory Kent explores the affective consequences of war
-

The Children’s War: Britain, 1914-1918, by Rosie Kennedy
A. W. Purdue on how children shared in the nation’s experience of the First World War
-

Making Painting: Helen Frankenthaler and J. M. W. Turner
Turner Contemporary in Margate allows visually convincing comparisons in the work of two major artists, finds Alexander Massouras