Aceh rector shot dead as guerrilla tension flares
Compared with the carnage in New York, it was a small act of terrorism. Dayan Dawood, rector of Syiah Kuala University in Banda Aceh, was heading back from the campus through the centre of town in...
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Bilston heads may sue 'vengeful' council
Former heads of Bilston Community College are considering legal action against funding chiefs over allegations of fraud. The move follows the conclusion of a two-year police investigation, instigated...
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Sudden exit for Oxford master
Sir Peter Williams, tipped as the next vice-chancellor of Oxford University, has announced after just 18 months that he is to leave his post as master of St Catherine's College. The announcement has...
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Latest UK news
Hodge signals review of student support Higher education minister Margaret Hodge has said that the range of financial help for poor people to enter higher education is an “absolute nightmare” and...
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Latest international news
Canadian universities access online journals Sixty-four Canadian universities have agreed to spend C$47 million (£20 million) over three years on nationwide site licenses for online scholarly...
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From today's UK papers
Independent If free babysitting were paid for, it would be an economic activity greater than the output of the UK's recession-hit manufacturing base, according to the government statistical agency...
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Misfortune and heroic muddle
Berlioz Remembered
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Reflecting in the house of moral mirrors
Are we naturally moral? Mary Midgley reconsiders 'human nature' Natural Goodness is a joyful book and one that is really needed. It resists a deadening error that has long deformed academic moral...
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Dirty and snobby? Must be the poms
Anglo-Australian Attitudes
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Emperors need their voices
The Cambridge Ancient History
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Glitz steals glory off gene
The Sequence
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London's Monster circus
The London Monster
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Fast news and fasts to halt rain
The Nineteenth Century, 1815-1901
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel about the suppression of books. "It was a pleasure to burn." The winner receives a £25...
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Life and death in Victorian numbers
The Demography of Victorian England and Wales