Film review: Hanna
A teenage girl assassin and out-of-control technology serve to amuse but also irritate, surmises Duncan Wu
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TV review: What's the Point of Forgiveness?
Gary Day finds that forgiveness can be a recreation of ourselves and of those whom have done us harm
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Campus round-up
University of OxfordLifeline for languageResearchers are in a race against time to document a dying language that is now spoken by only three people. Suriel Mofu, from the University of Oxford's...
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Odds and quads
If this shoe looks good enough to eat that is hardly surprising - it is made of cheese.
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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28 April 2011
Old school - Universities, stuck in the past century, are failing today’s students
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Majority of final-years would have baulked at £9K hurdle: survey
Over half of current final-year students would not have gone to university if they had faced tuition fees of £9,000 a year, according to a new study.
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Accommodating disability: one size doesn’t fit all
Back in the summer of 2005, I spent a lot of time travelling back and forth to visit the university I was to join in September. I had already had a good look at the place, and worked out all the...
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Inside Higher Ed: Equal time for ‘traditional values’
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Aquaculture cuts at Stirling net one-day walkout
Lecturers at the University of Stirling are due to strike on 26 April in a dispute over job losses.
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Spin cycle: 11 research-intensives foster over half of spin-outs in past decade
A group of 11 universities has produced more than half of all the spin-off companies to have been launched by higher education institutions in the past 10 years, according to new figures.
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What’s the worst that could happen? AUA mulls post-Browne sector
A nightmarish vision of the worst that the future could hold for English universities was set out at the Association of University Administrators conference at the University of Nottingham this week.
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Border Agency suspends Glasgow Caledonian’s Tier 4 licence
Glasgow Caledonian University has had its licence to sponsor foreign students temporarily suspended by the UK Border Agency.
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Britain's War Machine: Weapons, ߣߣÊÓƵ and Experts in the Second World War
Graham Farmelo is impressed by a fresh look at the UK's performance in a much-debated conflict
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Sold on Language: How Advertisers Talk to You and What This Says about You
Beneath some Mad men poppycock, Geoffrey K. Pullum spies a smart survey of linguistics in action