The hero who fought with an eye on fame
The Pursuit of Victory
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Rimbaud v Rambo
The American Enemy
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Absurd tales of oil, greed and death
A Month and a Day and Letters
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Imperial offspring's feel-sorry history
Children of the Raj
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A war frozen in propaganda's permafrost
Ivan's War
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Life as Don Quixote's reckless double
The Path of the Actor
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First Impressions
This week's competition to identify a book from its opening sentence is from a novelist described by Virginia Woolf as the first English woman to earn her living by writing: "I cannot omit giving the...
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UK kudos hit by fake degrees
The international reputation of UK universities is being put at risk by the increasing number of diploma mills that use UK addresses to sell fake degrees, quality watchdogs have warned. Academic...
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Step four: give me a large glass of whisky
This Christmas children everywhere will tear off wrapping paper in a frenzy of excitement - only to discover that Daddy can't understand the manual necessary to get their toy working. Researchers at...
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'The media are "aggressive in taking a biased view towards science"'
Sir John Krebs promises something 'zippy' when he delivers this year's Royal Institution Christmas lectures "Communicating science has always been incredibly important to me," said Sir John Krebs,...
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On the move...
* Cardiff University has appointed: David Jiles , former professor at Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, director of the Wolfson Centre for Magnetics in the School of Engineering; and Nick...
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Eviction of former Ulster v-c on hold
Ulster University has agreed to postpone attempts to evict Gerry McKenna, the former vice-chancellor, from his official residence. The undertaking was reached at Belfast High Court on Tuesday morning...
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Policy limbo leaves staff vulnerable
Half of universities have no rules governing relationships betweenacademics and their students. Phil Baty reports Universities were accused this week of leaving staff and students vulnerable to...
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Top Whitehall post goes to advocate of exam reform
An advocate of A-level reform who thinks university students should be given "a taste of modern business" has been appointed Britain's top education mandarin. David Bell, the Chief Inspector of...