Classic bunga bunga
Is it too much of a hermeneutic leap to detect a connection in the proximity of the reviews of Martijn Icks' book on the Emperor Elagabalus, famous for "his sexual depravity and orgiastic rituals",...
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A little short-staffed
Now we know the University of Poppleton's academic staffing levels: 167 scholars, or to be precise, 166 and one part-timer on 3.33 days a week. This is the only way to explain how Gordon Lapping's...
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Film review: Snowtown
Philip Dodd is disturbed by a vision of hell, where the audience is forced into unendurable complicity
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TV review: George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Martin Scorsese's film shows that none of life's strings can last, says Gary Day
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Kevin Sharpe, 1949-2011
"Slightly provocative, slightly cocky, but always intellectually impressive," Kevin Sharpe was a unique scholar, and one of the first to embrace the importance of interdisciplinarity.Born on 26...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Campus round-up
University College London/NottinghamOff with their headsScientists have created an interactive website based on Lewis Carroll's Wonderland stories to help children learn about the brain. The...
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Odds and quads
These "neck pieces" - necklaces made entirely of hair - are the work of Kerry Howley, a recent jewellery graduate from Middlesex University.
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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A matter of life or death
As a cancer survivor, Sally Feldman has been a research object and participant
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17 November 2011
Plum role - Leader, researcher, teacher, mentor: professor, who do you think you are?
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After 12 years, University of West London removed from ‘at risk’ list
A university that has been on the funding council’s “at risk†list for 12 years – longer than any other in England – has been removed from the register.
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Inside Higher Ed: Dropping F-bombs
By Elizabeth Murphy, for Inside Higher Ed
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FE colleges lead scramble for 20,000 biddable places
Five times as many further education colleges as universities have bid for places under the government’s cut-price student numbers margin in 2012-13.
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For students, fee waivers ‘make no sense whatsoever’
Tuition fee waivers should be scrapped in favour of bursaries, according to a former president of the National Union of Students.