Bank robber to sadistic tyrant
Stalin
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Truth gets lost at sea
The Crimean War
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Blowing the dust off royal records
The Struggle for Mastery
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School tie went quite a long way
The Guardsmen
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Midwife of the welfare state
Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience
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Poet who made ancient India sing for moderns
The Oxford India Ramanujan
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Science fears attacks will rise with Act
Universities may find it impossible to keep the identity of researchers working on animals hidden from extremists when freedom of information laws come into effect next year, experts warned this week...
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Universities exaggerate dyslexia epidemic for own gain, expert claims
Dyslexia may be being overdiagnosed in undergraduates to enable universities to boost exam results and get specialised support, the general secretary of the Association of Educational Psychologists...
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In the news: Julia Higgins
Dame Julia Higgins, president of the British Association, is convinced that the public must be allowed more of a say in the direction of science. She told delegates at this week's BA Festival of...
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Appointments
Abertay Dundee University has appointed Liz Wilson , director of nursing for the primary care division of the National Health Service in Tayside, visiting professor of nursing. Exeter University has...
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Tories: it's sink or swim
Conservative policy will leave unpopular universities struggling to survive. Phil Baty reports Universities will be left to sink or swim under Conservative Party plans for a market where students...
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Brand it like Becks
The bulging pay packets of Premiership footballers and the wheeler-dealing of managers in the transfer market may seem a world away from university life. But this week academics and university...
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Access figures perplex Scots
Scottish pride was dented this week as it emerged that the nation's much-vaunted 50 per cent higher education participation rate has dropped. Experts are baffled by the Scottish Executive statistics...
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'Sign up for medics test'
A-level students were warned this week that they could fail to secure a place to study medicine or veterinary medicine if they do not register for a university admission test by September 30. The...