Les Ebdon has used his first appearance before MPs as the government’s preferred choice for the post of director of fair access to lay down the gauntlet to highly-selective universities with “patchy...
Expanding the number of international students in the UK is not necessarily a good thing, immigration minister Damian Green has suggested.
Informal links keep society strong but, Frank Furedi finds, we don't make them like we used to
Helen Castor finds a fine-grained narrative on a medieval monarch quite compelling
"The King-times are fast finishing," wrote Lord Byron of the brief period with which John Gardner's book is concerned - August 1819 to August 1821. Gardner argues that these years, beginning with the...
In the small but very active international network of historians of Freemasonry, James Stevens Curl is an éminence grise. His beautiful publications on history and architecture are manifold, and...
Joanna Lewis admires an exploration of attitudes to colonialism and immigration in a crumbling empire
Demonstrations and riots have spawned much speculation about young people in the UK. Who are they? What do they want? How do they think, and are protesters representative of their generation?...
Jerusalem, Montreal, Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, Berlin, Paris, New York, Oxford...Oxford? Looking at this line-up of major international cities, Oxford strikes immediately as a very odd choice....
Mistakes and misunderstandings often serve to further human knowledge, finds Alex Danchev
When viewed against an event that propelled the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s back into media circulation, Vampire Nation possesses a certain currency. The May 2011 arrest of the Serbian former military...
The negotiation of the Blitz is still a permanent fixture of British post-war culture at the beginning of a new century. As the living record of eyewitnesses diminishes each year, the place of the...
South African institution's positive-discrimination policy stirs up fresh debate. Dan Newling reports
LEVERHULME TRUSTResearch Project GrantsBasic sciences• Award winner: David J. Gower• Institution: Natural History Museum• Value: £194,949Insights from snakes into vertebrate visual evolution• Award...
Tutors urged to improve assessment and feedback to help students adjust. Sam Creighton writes