Universities should judge themselves against new postgraduate training benchmarks in a bid to ensure consistent standards across the country, says a review for the funding councils. The report's wide...
Medical students in the UK must now learn how to blow the whistle on incompetent colleagues. The General Medical Council has published a set of recommendations for medical education that places a...
The Parthenon
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel by a Nobel laureate born in Lorain, Ohio: "He believed he was safe." The winner receives a £25...
Sidney Nolan
Gladiators at The Guildhall - Heart of the City
The Cult of Ra
Jihad - Jihad - The Shade of Swords - Inside Al-Qaeda - The Clash of Fundamentalisms
Stabbed in the Front - James Gillray
Lichens of North America
Vice-Chancellor's Personal Assistant Vice-Chancellor's Lodge University of Poppleton Poppleton PP12 6HP Siena 16 AUG 2002 Dear Mrs Beamish I have now arrived safely at the Universities UK summer...
If UK universities do not stop the culture of audit and do not secure full funding for the sector, humanities may go the way of the dinosaur, says Martin McQuillan. Let us say right from the...
Computer hacking, 'gay'-days and kosher kitchens are all part of the mix as America's universities strive to recruit the nation's most promising students. Stephen Phillips reports. University...
As this year's Edinburgh Festival celebrates the Scottish political song, Chris Wood asks what makes an anthem inspire allegiance. Things can only get better" was the message that blared from every...
Jeremy Black considers whether an obituary that eulogises its subject and glosses over the dirt failsin its mission. How should historians record and discuss the life, work and influence of those who...