Russia bankrolls loans to students
Russia's state savings bank has launched the country's first national student loans scheme with education ministry backing. The Pounds 2.5 billion initiative by Sberbank is aimed at existing students...
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Blair initiative may dilute fund
British involvement in the Commonwealth's top postgraduate scholarship scheme is under review as education ministers from 54 Commonwealth countries come under pressure to step up their commitment....
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel with the title of a minor metropolitan train station: " This is a true story but I can't...
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Finkelstein's final solution
The Holocaust Industry
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Rape is not just another word for suffering
Sex and Social Justice
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Mob rule with an eye for morals
Moral Economy and Popular Protest
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How joints lead to ozone destruction
Civilisation and the Limpet
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An egotist with selfless leanings
Francisco Toledo
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Taking a voyage to Mesoamerica from the comfort of the coffee table
Ancient West Mexico - Ancient Oaxaca
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Death to the adulteress
Author and academic Rene Weis believes that Edith Thompson, hanged for murder in 1923, was a victim of moral outrage. Helen Hague reports. On January 9 1923, Edith Thompson, a sparky successful, 29-...
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Should you wine and dine them or just correct their spelling?
A postgraduate's progress depends on their relationship with their supervisor. Anne Sebba asks if women -with their maternal instincts - are better suited to the role. Itake all my postgraduate...
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Sister of the 21st century
Feminism has slumped into enmity between the sexes since Angela McRobbie firstembraced it in the 1970s. Now, as women are pushed into an unequal jobs market, she calls on academics to reinventthe 'f...
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Wonky wonder worrying you?
Two scientists who save moving monuments talk to Jennifer Currie Saving historical monuments from collapse is part of the work of Robert Mair, professor of geotechnical engineering at Cambridge...
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Whispers on a not so clear-cut case of publish and be damned
A dispute over the copyright of poet John Clare's work has left scholar Simon Kovesi facing legal action A joint letter from 28 scholars and poets including Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Andrew...
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Ghostly infrasounds
Vic Tandy makes the absurd claim that "ghosts are mainly infrasound". Surely, ghosts are hallucinations brought about mainly by infrasound (Why II, THES, July 14). Richard Wilson Bicester, Oxfordshire