About Churchill: The Playwright and the Work
The Putney Debates, witch hunting, gender-bending in colonial Africa, dinner guests from different historical moments, disgruntled fairies, cloned sons and a global war fought by all aspects of the...
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Invented Edens: Techno-Cities of the 20th Century
Books on the Garden City tradition are two a penny, and this slimmish volume looks like another one. At first I wondered why two historians of science had written the book at all. They fall for the...
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Isolated from our heritage
Loss of learned skills is messing with our heads, but John Gilbey wonders who needs to know
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Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity
Somehow it seemed very appropriate that I chose to review this book during my annual sojourn to a Balearic beach where all the glories of the differing human form were exposed to public gaze. Fat...
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The Grail, the Quest and the World of Arthur
This collection of essays, issued in the publisher's Arthurian Studies series, was inspired by a conference at Pennsylvania State University that brought together experts in the medieval literary...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingGENERAL SCIENCE- ? Superstition: Belief in the Age of ScienceBy Robert L. Park, professor emeritus of physics, University of Maryland. Princeton University Press, £14.95. ISBN...
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From where I sit - The long march to quality
The hot story in China surrounds reports that a high-ranking Ministry of Education official has admitted that the massive expansion of university enrolment that began in 1999 was a decision made in...
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43 lecturers accidentally 'imprisoned'
What was described by Mike Adobe, our Deputy Head of Advanced Computer Services, as "a technological blip", led to the unfortunate overnight retention in our Central Library of 43 members of academic...
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Notes from the debt pit
Eschewing the City for the academy offers us scant protection, says Kevin Fong
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Off Piste: Life and sport: A world apart
Those who say life is like a game are confusing fantasy with reality, says Robert A. Segal
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Leader: Buy into a vision for expansion
If society believes a university education is important, it must find ways to fund it to enable all abilities to reach the right level
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Drew Manzie, 1944-2008
Drew Manzie, the inspirational former head of physical education at the University of Strathclyde, has died of cancer, aged 64.Niall Sturrock, Strathclyde's head of sport and recreation, who worked...
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Buckingham: why QAA has 'serious' concerns
The judgment by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) of limited confidence in the University of Buckingham was made for sound and serious reasons, and not for those suggested by Terence Kealey ("Trust...
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PVC 'posturing' assessed
Your series on "a passion for teaching" has been instructive, perhaps never more so than this week, with the piece on assessment by Leeds Metropolitan University provost and pro vice-chancellor (PVC...
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Built on good foundations
Your article "Fight or flight" (16 October) states that the Further Education Bill will allow "further education colleges across England to award their own foundation degrees" and they will have "...