The week in books
Txtng: The Gr8 Db8 by David Crystal, honorary professor of linguistics, Bangor University. Oxford University Press, £9.99, ISBN 9780199544905"If you've been waiting for someone to give a good kick to...
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Sweeping aside all the hurdles
Steve Tsang praises essential reading on China's troubled history with the Olympic Games
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Makhmalbaf at Large: The Making of a Rebel Filmmaker
Along with Abbas Kiarostami, Mohsen Makhmalbaf is the best known of the Iranian New Wave directors who came to international prominence in the wake of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. He is not merely a...
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How Terrorism Is Wrong: Morality and Political Violence
When nonviolent politics has been exhausted, or shut off by governments in situations of profound injustice, is violence or even terrorism sometimes justified? This is the central issue animating...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingART AND DESIGN- Before Bruegel: Sebald Beham and the Origins of Peasant Festival ImageryBy Alison G. Stewart, professor of art history, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Ashgate, £...
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First Impressions competition: 23 July 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel addressing post-civil-war American Black identity:"I am an invisible man." Entries, including...
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Glyndwr University - Newi becomes a university
The North East Wales Institute of Higher Education has become a university, naming itself after Owain Glyndwr, the Welsh hero who defended his homeland against Henry Bolingbroke, the future Henry IV...
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University of Nottingham - Clerical worker back in court
Hicham Yezza, the university clerical worker arrested after a colleague found a copy of an al-Qaeda training manual on his computer, appeared in court this week charged with immigration offences. Mr...
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University of Winchester - Fees cut for Gurkha children
Partners or children of serving Gurkhas and other Commonwealth Service personnel will pay reduced tuition fees at the University of Winchester from September. Dependants of the Nepalese servicemen...
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University of Portsmouth - IT scholar rules the field
A university lecturer refereed American football's equivalent of the Uefa Cup final in Berlin last week. Jim Briggs juggles lecturing in computing at the University of Portsmouth with his other...
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York St John University - On course for charity
A group of 36 business management degree students from York St John University have helped to raise money for the charities Macmillan Cancer Support and Everyman as part of their final-degree work....
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University of Glamorgan - Masters for new leaders
The UK's first higher education qualification in complexity leadership, which aims to challenge traditional management styles by breaking down traditional hierarchies, has been launched by the...
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University of London - Technological outreach
New technologies are helping universities to reach people with no prior experience of higher education, an international conference on learning and development has heard. Speakers at the Fifth Pan-...
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University of Kent - 'Risky' drinking in later life
"Risky drinking" in the over-55s is the focus of a new study led by Simon Coulton, a professor at the Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent. While such behaviour in young men and...
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University of Derby - Environment-friendly makeover
A £13.5 million investment that will change the skyline of Derby by 2010 has been confirmed by the University of Derby. The university is to refurbish its Kedleston Road site, including the campus's...