UK still suffers trips of the tongues
Your editorial “A timely look under the bonnet” (22 August) is right to draw attention to the issue of language degrees, but one of the figures was inaccurate. As of 23 August, the number of students...
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Grant winners - 29 August 2013
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: David SaadInstitution: Aston UniversityValue: £155,624Islands of equilibrium in a non-equilibrium worldAward winner: James...
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Odds and quads - 29 August 2013
Conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-74), originally from what is now Thailand, toured the world in a “human circus” and became so famous that the term “Siamese twins” is still current
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Edge Hill sees nothing to fear in the market
Vice-chancellor John Cater says that employment focus ensures strong applicant interest
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Animal House college becomes temperance leader
University renowned for drunkenness pioneers a new way to tackle binge drinking
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Will Germany silence whistleblowers on plagiarism?
Anonymous reports of misconduct will be blocked, writes Frances Mechan-Schmidt
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Why well-designed learning spaces pay educational dividends
Rethinking classroom design needn’t be expensive, but keeping users in mind is key
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Only some get to choose
Recreating a two-tier system is only benefiting ‘the best’, says Malcolm Gillies
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Zoë Svendsen on the dramaturge’s role at the heart of the action
The ‘creative consultant’ at work in the National Theatre’s new production of Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II
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Roger Brown, Amanda Leigh Cox, Rebecca Huxley-Binns, R. C. Richardson and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea, by Sheila Miyoshi Jager
Korea was divided by a struggle for legitimacy that resonates still, writes Marilyn Young
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Household Politics: Conflict in Early Modern England, by Don Herzog
Lucy Wooding reviews an analysis of the culture of early modern England
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Waiting for José: The Minutemen’s Pursuit of America, by Harel Shapira
Lee Maril is riveted by a first-time academic author’s encounters with the men and women who patrol the Arizona-Mexico border
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Ending Terrorism in Italy, by Anna Cento Bull and Philip Cooke
Ilaria Favretto on how the ‘years of lead’ were brought to a close