Ornamentalism: The Art of Renaissance Accessories
Still looking for Christmas gifts? You might be inspired by a book on Renaissance accessories. Matthew Reisz writes
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The Pick - Government Art Collection, Selected by Simon Schama: Travelling Light
Government Art Collection, Selected by Simon Schama: Travelling LightWhitechapel Gallery, London, until 26 FebruaryAt 25, Lord Byron was the ultimate matinee idol, posing in Albanian dress with...
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Diary
BBC Radio 4The Mumbai ChuzzlewitsConvinced that his relatives are after his money, wealthy old landlord Martin Chuzzlewit has adopted an orphan called Mary as his carer. Although she will be housed...
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Deck the Halls
A Personal Christmas Message from the Office of the President and Vice-ChancellorThis is inevitably that very special time of year when the thoughts of all those of us who continue to uphold and...
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Leader: They won't want to be stuffed
Universities cherish autonomy. When government strings truss them like Christmas turkeys, some might break for freedom
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Research Intelligence - Did Hoffmann take Nobel for the team?
Nobel row raises questions of who gets credit for research in an age of in 'hype'. Paul Jump writes
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The week in higher education
• As the National Union of Students revealed that more students are turning to sex work to cope with the cost of university, the Daily Mail mounted a graphic exposé. On 15 December, it told the tale...
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From where I sit - Credit where it's due
After four years in Cairo helping to establish the British University in Egypt (BUE), I am more convinced than ever that one of my long-held beliefs holds true: the UK does not value its universities...
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Appointments
Manchester Metropolitan UniversityJohn SwarbrookeAn academic with more than a decade's experience of working in the tourism industry has been appointed professor of tourism and hospitality at...
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Boom, bust and bonuses
Like capitalism, science has flaws, but it’s the best we’ve got, says Kevin Fong
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Glory in Excelsior!
Superhero comics gave Stephen Mumford the reading bug at an early age and a passion for the form he retains to this day. Even in the blockbuster era, he says, panels can't be beat...
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One quango to rule them all?
Government plans for the Higher Education Funding Council for England are ringing alarm bells across the sector. Can it really become a consumer protection body and fund universities without...
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Super-selection only perpetuates privilege (1 of 2)
Baroness Blackstone is rightly concerned about the social filtering going on in UK higher education ("Super-selection creates a monoculture that does not benefit society", 15 December). It is...
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Super-selection only perpetuates privilege (2 of 2)
I thought it was hilarious that, in an article on the progress being made by Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws at Mansfield College to promote fair access to the University of Oxford ("For fair access,...
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Blinkered Christian soldiers (1 of 2)
I notice that whenever people rush to declare what Christianity has done for us and to proclaim the West's historical debt to it, they tend to don rather rosy glasses.R. Iestyn Daniel (Letters, 15...