Letter: Our young coddled eggheads (2)
Since I returned to work at a university campus ten years ago, I have been astonished to witness the normalisation of mother-and-child open days. It is parents rather than potential students who are...
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Letter: Our young coddled eggheads (3)
I can confirm Frank Furedi's observation about the rise in the number of parents attending open days - naively I once thought they might be prospective mature students. But I cannot let his comments...
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Leader: Quality requires radical rethink not a quickfix
One of the most pressing items in the in-tray of the next secretary of state for education will be the vexed question of quality assurance in higher education. Alan Ryan, Lewis Elton, Roderick Floud...
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A political crisis in need of drama
Reading Revolutions - Remapping Early Modern England
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Reverend who had Conan Doyle on his side
Indians in Britain
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Top-secret files reveal colour, but not depth
Nikita Khrushchev - Lenin - Nikita Khrushchev and theCreation of a Superpower
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Golden oldie that would benefit from a little refinement
King Croesus' Gold
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When Oprah met Sappho
The Greeks
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Any final say in war of words?
The Remedy
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Size matters for Egyptian gods
The Keys to Egypt
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Ambivalent beginnings
The Ideological Originsof the British Empire
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Drifting into murderous morality
The Third Reich
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a satire of Hollywood life: " Around quitting time, Tod Hackett heard a great din on the road...
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Keys, codes and a cracking story
Enigma - The Emperor's Codes - Battle of Wits