In the news: Jonathan Magee
'The Professional Footballers' Association is doing fantastic work to encourage players to continue degree programmes and professionals to do degrees part time' The financial crises besetting...
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Appointments
Kate McLuskie , deputy vice-chancellor of Southampton University and former head of English and dean of the arts faculty school of research and graduate studies, has been appointed director of the...
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Study calls for grading reform
It is easier to get top grades in some A-level subjects than others according to new evidence that has prompted a call for universities to "weight" applicants' results according to their difficulty....
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Participation falls in capital
The Government was forced to defend its record on widening participation this week after figures revealed that the number of teenagers from London participating in higher education fell last year,...
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Public 'must have say on science'
Members of the public should have a say in the work of UK scientists as part of a radical reform of the research councils proposed this week by think tank Demos. The Demos report argues that unless...
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Next week
Generation gap As academic life changes, are younger and older lecturers finding it more difficult to understand each other? Also Books review of Christ of Koch's The Quest for Consciousness with a...
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Early start on the cards
The brightest A-level students could begin their higher education early by attending university part time, under government plans announced by Charles Clarke, the Education Secretary. He revealed...
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UK surgeon leads study
An Oxford surgeon is leading a major international study into heart bypass surgery. The study, led by David Taggart, consultant cardiac surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, will monitor 3,...
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Foxes, fans and farting
Encyclopedia of Opera on Screen
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No winners when all Yanks get prizes
A History of American Literature
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Smalls that stay in shape
The Cambridge History of Western Textiles
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Love spoke its name in chorus
Homosexuality and Civilization - London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914
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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 first novel by a thriller writer: "They came through on the hot line at about half past two in the...
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French theory with polish
The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir
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