Gambling rise a lottery legacy
The number of households gambling more than 10 per cent of their weekly income has quadrupled since the introduction of the National Lottery, a new study has found. Analysis of official data by Paul...
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Sheffield College set to axe 180 jobs
Lecturers' union leaders have condemned as "educational vandalism" plans to axe 180 jobs at Britain's biggest further education college, writes Tony Tysome. Representatives of Natfhe, the college...
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Voices unite against top-up fees
Controversial proposals for the introduction of top-up fees were condemned this week by economists, students, headteachers, lecturers' unions and further education leaders, while vice-chancellors...
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Plan for 'instant' degrees abandoned
Oxford Brookes University has pulled out of a deal to award "instant" degrees to part-qualified professional accountancy students without requiring them to do any additional work at university....
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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 work that has a winged Cockney heroine: " 'Lor' love you, sir!' Fevvers sang out in a voice that...
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Sharp exchange over the blunt scythe of selection
Alas, Poor Darwin - Dear Mr Darwin - The Mating Mind - A Natural History of Rape
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Evil designs of pillage upon a complex cultural canvas
The Faustian Bargain
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Perchance to dream... of treacle
The Annotated Alice
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Sex and drugs and serious thought
A Brief History of the Future
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Social life of the worldwide web
Weaving the Web
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California dreaming of a nice cup of tea
Stuck in American suburbia with a sick girlfriend and a book to write... Nick Groom kicks off a three-part series on academic sabbaticals. I needed a change. What will appear on the CV is something...
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Higher channels
John Davies gives the schedules a quality audit (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week Money is still a major preoccupation this week. The day after part two of Peter Jay's Road to Riches (...
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When 'ippies didn't wear Bede
Sheila Rowbotham on what it was like to be a student in the 1960s and why the era's educational vision is still valid today. One of the great mysteries is how people get hooked on education. It was...
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Are sabbaticals being phased out?
With never-ending teaching and administrative commitments, finding time to write a book, visit a distant library, or carry out experiments is a challenge. That is why the sabbatical - that period of...
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'Blunkett is in denial of his impairment as an experience'
Disability theorist Paul Darke (right) has an MA in American literature from Keele and a PhD in film studies from Warwick. His doctorate probed the pernicious stereotyping of disability in films - "...