Oxford demands star quality from candidates
The University of Oxford has announced that it will start asking for A* grades at A level.
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Tara Brabazon: The science of seeing
Visual media educators have a great choice of technological wizardry they can employ to enhance their teaching, writes Tara Brabazon
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Cut ‘burdensome’ red tape stifling medical research, report urges
Health research in the UK is being “stifled” by excessive regulation, a report by the Academy of Medical Sciences has concluded.
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Millbank protester imprisoned for violent disorder
The protester who threw a fire extinguisher from the roof of Conservative Party headquarters during a tuition-fee demonstration has been jailed for 32 months.
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Inside Higher Ed: An open, digital professoriat
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Ex-minister joins Plymouth’s ranks
A former minister for higher education during Labour’s days in power has been appointed deputy vice-chancellor at the University of Plymouth.
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Acclaimed Cuban film school trains its focus on ‘cinema and life’
Inside the main building of the International School of Film and Television (EICTV) in Cuba, the atmosphere is a mixture of warm conviviality and frenetic hard work. Each year, around 500 applicants...
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‘Inexplicable delays’ in disclosure of teacher-training funding
The group representing university teacher-training centres has written to Michael Gove, the education secretary, to complain about “inexplicable delays” in the announcement of funding allocations for...
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The 126th MLA annual convention: something for everyone
In the middle of the week, downtown Los Angeles was very much its usual self – with teenagers lining up to catch glimpses of the celebrities emerging from this year’s People’s Choice awards.
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Blowout in the Gulf: The BP Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Energy in America
Hugh Gorman on a narrative that places the BP Gulf oil spill in context with the US' energy policy
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My Life on Mars: The Beagle 2 Diaries
Jon Turney probes the maverick mind and the bickering behind an interplanetary voyage
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Shakespeare's Freedom
The flyleaf blurb describes Stephen Greenblatt as author of "the groundbreaking Renaissance Self-Fashioning". It was in this book, published in 1980, that Greenblatt's desire "to speak with the dead...
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When God Made Hell: The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921
Among the many striking images in this study of the British campaign in Mesopotamia during the First World War is that of a British cavalry officer, riding up to a column of marching soldiers,...
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Practical Tortoise Raising and Other Philosophical Essays
Daniel Whiting assesses a philosophical argument that attempts to take us from 'doing' to 'saying'
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Violent London: 2000 Years of Riots, Rebels and Revolts
The displays of the heads and body parts of the executed, which adorned bridges and city gates, offered a grim welcome to travellers as they approached medieval or early modern London. They can be...