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...
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...
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...
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...
Deadline: 02/10/2006
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...
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...
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...
Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
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The English Renaissance Stage
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel written in the form of an autobiography: "I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-...