What is the basis of the Age Concern challenge?In 2006, the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations came into force. Age Concern, under the title of Heyday, brought an action in the High Court in...
Letter-writers claim the university needs to invest in the discipline or distinctive research strengths will be weakened in the UK, writes Melanie Newman
Defending one’s territory – one of the most basic of instincts – can arouse passions in even the most docile. Gloria Monday finds ways and means of keeping what she’s got
Government told to appoint engineering experts, writes Zoë Corbyn
The principal of Royal Holloway and the vice-chancellor of York St John call time on their tenures. Melanie Newman reports
But agency investigation finds no evidence of widespread problems with standards. Melanie Newman reports
Shelley King finds that some things stay the same in an analysis of schooldays then and now
Television drama generates the best US presidents. Jed Bartlett (The West Wing) and David Palmer (24) offered a morally righteous alternative to Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. A Pinnacle of Feeling...
1. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein Penguin, £9.99 ISBN 97801410400112. The Logic of Life: Uncovering the New Economics of...
Joanna Lewis gets to grip with the workings of African democracies
Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Found the Hidden Gospels by Janet Soskice, university reader in philosophical theology and fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge. Chatto and Windus, £18.99, ISBN...
A work of science-fiction trivia transports Gary Day to a place lacking in intellectual atmosphere
This is a book about the history of the Arts Council and an assessment of regional theatre in Britain. Its subject is that much-visited battleground where funding bodies and artists meet to nervously...
Samuel Huntington's thesis of a "clash of civilisations", formulated as the Cold War ended, has proved to be one of the most influential ideas in international-relations theory. Among political...
ART AND DESIGN- Louis H. Sullivan and a 19th-Century Poetics of Naturalized ArchitectureBy Lauren S. Weingarden, associate professor of art history, Florida State University. Ashgate, £65.00. ISBN...