Brought to book
The article "US rage at textbook price hike" (August 11) failed to provide an accurate understanding of the changing nature of today's college textbooks. Publishers offer thousands of options for...
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Seduction kit: take £1K and a list of local bars
Clearing is no longer about denying the needy a chance to prosper, it's about pushing the student experience. Nigel Barley listens in on a few calls When Big Brother set up a university for...
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Labour's great hero who nearly was
Blair is the most unpopular PM since polls began, but that isn't the whole story, say Vernon Bogdanor et al Every hero, Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, becomes a bore at last. The Blair era, an era of...
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He has conviction, but voters never did
To argue that Tony Blair has turned people off politics implies that they were turned on in the first place, but the evidence tells us they were not. Voting levels have fallen - as has membership of...
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The Blair effect on political studies?
Students are largely unenthused by the major parties and are particularly turned off by a new Labour approach that they perceive as anti-democratic and spin-driven. Tony Blair is especially unpopular...
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Women are still 15% cheaper
Despite being very well represented on campus, women are being short-changed in the workplace, says Anna Fazackerley When English and drama tutor Peter Lewis looks out across the lecture theatre at...
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Curse.com or blessing.net? Or be silent and take up stamp collecting
Academics who have made a success of blogging believe that their high profiles are damaging their career prospects. Stephen Phillips investigates Daniel Drezner had been an avid reader of blogs since...
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Having a luvvie time on the mean streets of Manchester
Unlike its portrayal on TV, volunteering at a law centre is not all murder and corporate corruption but good training for tomorrow's legal eagles, says Dinah Crystal The highlight of my summer has...
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Taste for off-the-wall dental work
It involves extreme concentration, hard graft in subzero temperatures and the odd denture in stone, but one academic just can't resist an eight-hour stint of walling, says Olga Wojtas Taking a summer...
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Today's news
University clearing in chaos after computer system fails Thousands of students are feared to have missed out on good clearing places at university this year after a catalogue of failings in the...
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British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowships
Deadline: 02/10/2006
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Latest research news
There is a little Neanderthal in a lot of us People who have large noses, a stocky build and a beetle brow may indeed be a little Neanderthal, according to a genetic study. But the good news is that...
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Today's news
Tories aim to boost links with India Moves to encourage more Indian students to come to UK universities, including greater funding for scholarships, were called for by the Conservative party as part...
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Today's news
Hungarian academic 'rejected by Heriot-Watt' A Hungarian academic with two doctorates claims she was rejected for a job at a Scottish university just because she was not born in an English-speaking...
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Boldness of tongue permitted
Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England