Daytime TV: Darkness lingers
The National Grid spread light, but the unemployed still just hang on in the shadows, learns Gary Day
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Diary
BirminghamQueering the MuseumIt is often assumed, argue the creators of a bold new exhibition at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (4 November to 30 January 2011), that the world is straight, and...
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The Pick - Paraphernalia framing British art
40 Degrees of SeparationThe Goodison Room, Tate BritainLondon until February 2011Established in 1970, the Tate Archive contains more than a million items - diaries, notebooks, letters, sketches,...
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UUK is OK!
Our vice-chancellor has vigorously defended the response of Universities UK to the Browne Review.Speaking to our reporter Keith Ponting (30), he commended UUK's decision to say absolutely nothing...
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Leader: Time for a return to entry duty?
Universities have for some time left A levels to others, but they may soon find themselves driven to reassert control
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What do we say on the tin?
In competitive times, it's hard to avoid hype in a prospectus, says Tim Birkhead
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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From where I sit - Mass education: the good points
I wonder what university teaching will look like in, say, 10 years?Will the age-old system continue, in which a lecturer pontificates from a lectern for an hour or two and tutors of varying ability...
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Kimmy Eldridge, 1947-2010
An academic who played a key role in forging links between higher education and the NHS has died.Kimmy Eldridge was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 8 August 1947.She early acquired a lifelong...
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University of Oxford - Coffers swell
A university's international fundraising campaign has passed the £1 billion mark. The campaign was started by the University of Oxford in 2008, when a target of at least £1.25 billion was set. The...
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University of Oxford - A gift from the East
A Hong Kong philanthropist has donated £10 million to an Oxford college to help it create a dedicated building for the study of China. The centre at St Hugh's College, which will bring together...
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Feminist Judgments: From Theory to Practice
Editors: Rosemary Hunter, Clare McGlynn and Erika RackleyEdition: FirstPublisher: HartPages: 470Price: £22.95ISBN 9781849460538This is a fascinating and seductively simple idea. Someone must have...
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Law roundup
The Dred Scott Case: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Race and LawEditors: David Thomas Konig, Paul Finkelman and Christopher Alan BraceyEdition: FirstPublisher: Ohio University PressPages...
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Student review: Letters to a Law Student: A Guide to Studying Law at University
Author: Nicholas J. McBrideEdition: SecondPublisher: Pearson LongmanPages: 392Price: £15.99ISBN 9781408218808The first indication of the book's originality lies in its format: a series of 20 letters...
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Analysing Sentences
Author: Noel Burton-RobertsEdition: ThirdPublisher: Pearson LongmanPages: 296Price: £19.99ISBN 9781408233740Some textbooks on English grammar seem uninfluenced by anything after the 1760s; others...