Scarred for life?
The recession has intensified competition for university places, with degrees more vital than ever for gaining an advantage in a tough job market. As clearing begins, will the 'lost generation' be...
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Forget Me Not (but remember me warts and all)
Far too often, obituaries are drab and sanitised affairs, so Matthew Reisz asks scholars how they might word their own death notices
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Unsuitable candidates
Brilliant thinker, shame about the suit: dossiers retrieved by Belagir M. Synkina reveal academic search committees' encounters with genius
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Leader: Anthem for doomed youth
The Government is all at sea. Its wave of contrary policies mean it is in danger not only of losing a generation but of squandering it
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20 August 2009
Admissions of failure - How a generation of students has been sold short
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Part-time students deserve cash injection, says think-tank
Report calls for £33 million to be diverted from the University Challenge fund to support the group, writes Rebecca Attwood
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Could do better
Half of all students who train to be teachers actually go on to teach. Melanie Newman reports
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Gloria Monday: Don’t look now…
If you want to stay abreast of what’s happening in the holidays, Gloria Monday’s advice is not to leave the building
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Unite rejects 0.5 per cent pay offer
Ucea must meet the union within seven days to seek a resolution. Melanie Newman reports
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Book of the week: The New British Constitution
Anthony King watches Britain inching towards a new constitution
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Juke Box Britain
Andrew Blake discovers that the UK had its own distinctive youth culture before rock'n'roll arrived
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The Liberal Project and Human Rights: The Theory and Practice of a New World Order
The Liberal Project is unique in its contextualisation of the global human rights regime in "an evolving international society of sovereign states", a society itself underpinned by liberal...
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The Canon. Childhood Psychosis: Initial Studies and New Insights. By Leo Kanner
On my first day at the university library, I found this collection of the papers of Leo Kanner. I have never let it go. Kanner, Austrian by birth, was appointed in 1930 as the first head of an...
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The Rape of Mesopotamia: Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum
Johan Franzén is disturbed by America's failure to protect Iraq's historical artefacts during the war
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A Revolution in Taste: The Rise of French Cuisine 1650-1800
French cuisine underwent a dramatic transformation during the early modern period. All kinds of new products became available: potatoes, pumpkins and turkeys from the New World; chocolate, coffee and...