Film review: Win Win
A high-calibre cast overcome a contrived storyline about a fresh start in middle age, says Duncan Wu
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TV review: Wonderland: The Trouble with Love and Sex
Gary Day is touched by an animated exploration of Relate's work with troubled or warring couples
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Peter Young, 1923-2011
Very tall, with a shock of white hair, Peter Young was a "cheerful, humorous and knowledgeable" engineering professor who also enjoyed choral singing.Born in Boston, Lincolnshire on 23 November 1923...
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THE Scholarly Web
A weekly round-up of the best on the scholarly web
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Campus round-up
University of ManchesterShared remediesTwo pharmaceutical companies have teamed up with a university for collaborative research into inflammatory diseases. The University of Manchester,...
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Odds and quads
The linear écraseur chain - developed in Paris in 1850 for amputating limbs and tumours, and for castration - works by the gradual tightening of the chain loop, crushing tissue without causing...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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19 May 2011
Love over money - Will happiness and well-being become the economists’ measures of choice?
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Visa rules threaten overseas foundations, Study Group says
The UK’s £2.4 billion overseas student market could yet take a hit from government visa restrictions, according to a private firm that provides foundation courses.
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Tara Brabazon: Preservation orders
In a technological environment built on planned obsolescence, history matters, argues Tara Brabazon
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Cuts threaten innovation and export success of UK universities, report reveals
The international activities of UK universities have created a “highly knowledge-intensive export industry†and are a prime example of innovation in the public sector – but government funding cuts...
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Inside Higher Ed: Translating ‘grad student’ into English
By Kevin Kiley, for Inside Higher Ed
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Brazil the first stop for Midlands partners
A joint mission to Brazil is taking place this week, the first step of a groundbreaking partnership between the universities of Birmingham and Nottingham.The two institutions, which collectively have...
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Service point made as De Montfort announces support cuts
About 190 support-staff jobs are at risk at De Montfort University, prompting warnings that students will shun institutions seen as having “cheap and cheerful†support services.The university has...
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School of Pharmacy to merge with UCL
A controversial merger between two University of London colleges is to take place after the governing body of the School of Pharmacy approved a plan to become part of University College London from...