Franchise clampdown hits Israeli students
The University of Birmingham has been barred from registering any new students in Israel, becoming the third high-profile victim of a clampdown on franchising by the Israeli university regulators....
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Edinburgh draws fine line between copying and cheating
Edinburgh University is refusing to brand as exam cheats almost 120 computer science students, despite admitting they collaborated to a degree "beyond what is acceptable". The university insisted it...
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Shadowing a philanthropologist
Savaging the Civilised
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Ancient prescriptions in tablet form
The Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos, Volume Four
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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 writer who once co-authored a novel with Joseph Conrad: " This is the saddest story I have ever...
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God is dead: long live the genes
The Genetic Gods
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Hit and myth: Barthes's inglorious life and times
Roland Barthes, Phenomenon and Myth
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Music that won't disturb the neighbours
The Clavichord
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Surviving in the world that never sleeps
The 24 Hour Society
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The movie genre that went west
Back in the Saddle Again
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
Liberal education may be out of favour with David Blunkett, but Alan Ryan says it is our defence against mob rule. Amid this week's talk of A-level grades and university entrance demands, one sort of...
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Planes, brains and autodidacts
Increasing numbers of academics are augmenting their salaries by taking well heeled tourists on cultural holidays. But is the Pounds 200 daily fee worth the aggravation? Anne Sebba reports. The...
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Higher channels
Tom Davies scans the schedules. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week The Union Game (Sunday 8.00 BBC2). Less a programme about rugby than an absorbing social history of Britain from the...