Film review: Mysteries of Lisbon
This set of melodramatic interconnected tales is a visual delight - but take a cushion, says Duncan Wu
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TV review: Churches: How to Read Them
The Church was the heart of medieval life, says Gary Day, full of symbolism, beauty and grotesqueries
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Julia Swindells, 1951-2011
Julia Swindells was a "reluctant academic star" who, despite making Cambridge her home, "always remained a Northerner in her heart".Professor Swindells was born in Macclesfield on 13 August 1951, and...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Campus round-up
University of LiverpoolTurn the page on painA new research centre will explore how reading can help sufferers of serious health conditions including depression, dementia and chronic pain. The...
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Odds and quads
John Hunter (1728-93) has been called the "father of modern surgery", since he was the first to apply a truly scientific methodology to the medical procedure.
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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8 December 2011
Byte sighs - Digital humanities: too much information?
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Injunction malfunction: Sheffield withdraws High Court order on student protests
The University of Sheffield has withdrawn an injunction that students feared would ban campus protests.
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Rethink needed to avoid polarisation of sector, ministers told
Two proposals have been put forward to avert the “polarisation” of the sector as a result of the government’s student number plans.
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Inside Higher Ed: Politicisation of study abroad
By Elizabeth Redden, for Inside Higher Ed
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Cardiff students to compete for ‘free tuition for life’
A university is launching a competition to win an “Ultimate Scholarship”, which would give the winner free tuition at the institution for life.
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Life sciences strategy to strengthen links between universities, NHS and pharma
David Cameron is to announce a new government strategy developing links between university medical research, the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry.
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Harder working, less satisfied – the foreign scholar’s lot?
Foreign academics working in the US are more productive than their American counterparts – but are also less satisfied with their work, a study has concluded.
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IT infrastructure receives multi-million pound boost
The UK’s higher education and college IT network, JANET, is to benefit from a £31 million boost from the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills.