The slow, torturous turning of the screw
Faisal al Yafai explores the erosion of academic freedom in Belarus, where critical thinkers are forced underground Even now, it is not clear why Pavel Krasovski was expelled from university....
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Extreme makeover - a whole new you?
Who would really want a new sense of sexual identity? David Gems considers the challenges of ontological enhancement Can I interest you in a new and dangerous idea? It is called ontological...
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No sex please, we are young, free and single
Princeton students are curiously conservative and surprisingly celibate, in fiction and in fact, says Edmund White After 16 years of living in Paris I came back to the US six years ago to a job...
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Campus curiosities
No 12: UCL's eclipsed staer-gazers Flanking the approach to the imposing portico of the Wilkins building at University College London are two rather tired circular structures with metal-clad...
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Pen succumbs to power of pixel
It's the end of the line for the hand-drawn Disney character. What would Walt have said, asks John Canemaker In the 1960s, Walt Disney joked that one day he would replace his elite corps of animators...
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Today's news
Rise in A-level passes the smallest for 20 years A-level results improved for the 23rd year in a row today. The overall pass rate increased by 0.2 percentage points to 96.2 per cent, while the...
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Latest research news
Nerve cell breakthrough is world first Scientists in Edinburgh have created the world's first clutch of nerve stem cells in what could prove to be a major breakthrough in the race to treat diseases...
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Today's news
A-level exam is 'terminal decline' The A-level examination system is "in terminal decline", a spokesman for independent schools says today, and its destiny is beyond the Government's control. Geoff...
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Today's news
Huge majority backs A-level reform The vast majority of the public wants the government to introduce further, radical reforms to A-levels, even though it is broadly split on whether the "gold...
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Today's news
A-level results to add pressure for university entrance tests Universities are coming under mounting pressure to adopt admissions tests to distinguish between the best candidates as record numbers of...
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The calculated climb of the medieval gentry
Blood and Roses
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by an immigrant who loved Britain's architecture: "A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln...
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Did the ancestors think of the future?
Past Futures
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East-West curiosities exchange
Goa and the Great Mughal