A place for apprenticeships
David Blanchflower's comments that extra university places should be created to address youth unemployment are short-sighted and naive ("No jobs, so get them on courses", 3 November).He fails to take...
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Film review: The Deep Blue Sea
Philip Dodd finds moments to cherish in Terence Davies' meditation on a tortured relationship
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TV review: Imagine: Alan Ayckbourn - Greetings from Scarborough
Alan Ayckbourn's plays are full of gentle humour and sharp insights into all human life, says Gary Day
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Gordon Higginson, 1929-2011
An academic with "unfailing warmth and courtesy", Gordon Higginson's nine-year tenure as vice-chancellor of the University of Southampton left a legacy that is still evident throughout the...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Campus round-up
University of LeedsLook after yourselves, tooClose to 6.5 million people in the UK care for sick, disabled or frail friends and relatives, often at considerable cost to their own health and finances...
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Odds and quads
Adolphus was the mascot of fighter ace Maurice Leblanc-Smith (1896-1986), winner of the Distinguished Flying Cross, and accompanied him on many missions during the First World War.
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Tours promise a degree of truth about Argentina's past
Jon Marcus meets the scholarly guides tearing up the Tim Rice lyrics to uncover the real Buenos Aires
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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24 November 2011
Civic spark - What does a university add to a city? A lot more than you might think
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Black hole at heart of star's collapse
Dutch begin documenting top psychologist’s supermassive fraud
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Willetts forced to abandon Cambridge lecture after protest
David Willetts was forced to call off a lecture yesterday evening after the event he was due to speak at was disrupted by student protesters.
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Regent’s College unveils expansion plans
One of the UK’s biggest private providers has set out bold plans to become a university, more than double in size and takeover or link up with other “complementary institutions” both in Britain and...
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Fresh leak of scientists' emails ahead of climate change summit
The University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit has found itself back in the spotlight with the leak of over 5,000 emails seemingly to and from its academic staff.
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NERC appoints new head after long search
A new chief executive has been appointed to the Natural Environment Research Council almost five months after its previous head stepped down.