Feeling their age
Nicholas Morton's "aged and magnificently bearded relative" ("Pick a book, any book", 21 April) would have agreed with Sir Geoffrey Howe. In 1962, when he was neither aged nor bearded, he declared...
Nicholas Morton's "aged and magnificently bearded relative" ("Pick a book, any book", 21 April) would have agreed with Sir Geoffrey Howe. In 1962, when he was neither aged nor bearded, he declared...

Deficit of £30m forecast even as non-EU fees take second 10% rise in a row, writes Simon Baker

Philip Dodd finds physical and critical distance obliterated in a 3D film where the brand is king

Gary Day is mesmerised by the bedridden life of a man mountain who courts global media attention
University of CambridgeThe company you keepDavid Cameron attracts the same sort of Facebook follower as American martial arts fighter Chuck Liddell, while fans of Barack Obama are the type who also...

These shoes are among 650 pairs that were once used as teaching aids and now comprise the Cordwainers College Historic Shoe Collection.
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The malady of research - Science is not doing enough to ensure the truth will out
The royal wedding demanded a topsy-turvy carnival of sex and symbolic slaughter, says Camilla Power, but trying to exercise a human right to ritual participation landed her in jail
The University of St Andrews has issued a robust response to a national newspaper’s allegation that it has inappropriate links to the Syrian regime.
In an election outcome that surprised both political scientists and the public, Canada’s pro-business Conservative Party has formed a majority government for the first time since 1988.
The head of the Sutton Trust has told a cross-party group of MPs that the government’s higher education reforms are “totally out of line” with the rest of the world.

Tragedies are worms that burrow deep into memories. We carry postcards from our past into the present, but when disaster strikes a city we know well, memories crumple, twist, decay and dissolve.In...

By Libby A. Nelson and Doug Lederman, for Inside Higher Ed
As Canada prepares for its fourth general election in seven years, its university sector is doing its utmost to ensure that higher education is a key priority for the main parties.