Universities must reclaim their role as instillers of values as well as imparters of knowledge, argues Alan Gilbert Something must be done to make human life on earth more equitable. Being an agent...
If Tony Blair had spent more time listening to the advice of reasonable people, he might not have been so quick to involve the UK in an illegal invasion of Iraq. I am pretty awful at chess - a...
Most vice-chancellors managed to make it to Warwick this week for the annual Universities UK conference, even without the private railway carriage that was promised last year. One evening, three...
A competition to find the most inviting, unappealing, complex or bizarre conference title was launched this week by Rob Davidson, a senior lecturer in business travel and tourism at Westminster...
Administrative staff celebrated after receiving notice of a rebate from the Quality Assurance Agency this week. The agency wrote to all institution heads saying it had collected too much money from...
A Writer's World
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel based on a visit to Surinam: "I do not intend, in giving you the history of this royal slave,...
The Dancer Defects
Harry Truman and Civil Rights
Labyrinth Revisited
Adventures in Egypt and Nubia
Britain in Revolution
King Arthur
Prince of Europe