Off-target in places
Graham Farmelo's review of David Edgerton's book Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War (21 April) was refreshing, as there is clearly still much to do to get a...
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Anyone for quality?
The US study you reported ("Mission creep as US spends, spends, spends on the extras", 28 April), showing that between half and three-quarters of American students pay more in tuition than their...
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Anti-posh prejudice
Universities that charge £9,000 a year will have to show that they are widening participation from state schools and the lower social classes.But what about those callous universities charging, say...
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Feeling their age
Nicholas Morton's "aged and magnificently bearded relative" ("Pick a book, any book", 21 April) would have agreed with Sir Geoffrey Howe. In 1962, when he was neither aged nor bearded, he declared...
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Cambridge hikes foreign surcharge
Deficit of £30m forecast even as non-EU fees take second 10% rise in a row, writes Simon Baker
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Film review: Berliner Philharmoniker - A Musical Journey in 3D
Philip Dodd finds physical and critical distance obliterated in a 3D film where the brand is king
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TV review: Extraordinary People: The World's Heaviest Man Gets Married
Gary Day is mesmerised by the bedridden life of a man mountain who courts global media attention
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Campus round-up
University of CambridgeThe company you keepDavid Cameron attracts the same sort of Facebook follower as American martial arts fighter Chuck Liddell, while fans of Barack Obama are the type who also...
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Odds and quads: the Cordwainers College Historic Shoe Collection
These shoes are among 650 pairs that were once used as teaching aids and now comprise the Cordwainers College Historic Shoe Collection.
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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5 May 2011
The malady of research - Science is not doing enough to ensure the truth will out
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By royal decree: the zombie orgy is off
The royal wedding demanded a topsy-turvy carnival of sex and symbolic slaughter, says Camilla Power, but trying to exercise a human right to ritual participation landed her in jail
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St Andrews finds ‘no evidence’ of improper links with Syrian state
The University of St Andrews has issued a robust response to a national newspaper’s allegation that it has inappropriate links to the Syrian regime.
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No surprise, and several big ones, as Canada’s Harper is re-elected
In an election outcome that surprised both political scientists and the public, Canada’s pro-business Conservative Party has formed a majority government for the first time since 1988.
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Funding reforms are ‘very dangerous’, parliamentary committee hears
The head of the Sutton Trust has told a cross-party group of MPs that the government’s higher education reforms are “totally out of line” with the rest of the world.