Bring your swim trunks to the SCR
Lecturing in Jamaica has its drawbacks but has its sunny side too, writes Tony Ward in the fourth of our series from the grass roots. Rising student numbers, not enough time to do research, and...
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Latest UK news
Bar Council warning over law degrees The Bar Council has warned that it may no longer recognise university law degrees. Nigel Bastin, head of education for the Bar Council, said the council formally...
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Latest international news
Global warming irreversible, say Russians Russian scientists have warned that global warming is irreversible and that schemes to tackle it might reduce its worst effects only slightly. Speakers at a...
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From today's UK papers
The Financial Times The journal Nature will urge its authors to disclose any financial interests related to their studies in response to growing concerns over increasing links between...
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Netgazette
University of Surrey Appointments as follows: Head of department B. Weiss (electronics, computing and mathematics); J. Tostevin (physics). Readership M. Olssen , former senior lecturer at the...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a work by a "selfish geneticist": "We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe...
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To shape a House that thereafter shaped us
Christopher Woodward on Barry's Gothic triumph by the Thames. At six o'clock in the evening of October 16 1834, fire broke out under the debating chamber of the House of Lords at the Palace of...
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Brilliance leaves sacrifice in its wake
Derek Walcott
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Discovering how to disguise your colleagues as groceries
Cretan Quests
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When rage was en vogue
Paris Between Empires, 1814-1852
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The continuity of coastal lives
Facing the Ocean
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Saintly side of nascent medieval nationality
The Medieval State
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A treatment of the world's ills, even Napoleon's piles
Disease and History
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Brokers who remade a nation
The Blood of Guatemala