Old King Cole's reign - from the sewers to symphonies
The Great Exhibitor
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Verily a flea in the ear for all who fail to properly hear
'Counterfeiting' Shakespeare - Shakespeare, Co-author
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Amazed and confused in the quest for clarity
After Theory
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A man of steel who softened with age
Carnegie
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From mogul to muddle in 200 pages
Capitalism is Dead
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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 classic war novel: "We are in camp five miles behind the line." The winner receives a £25 book...
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Top tips you can count on
Quantitative Techniques - Business Statistics - Business Statistics - Quantitative Methods
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Agree ethics code or face state control
The government is developing a scientific code of conduct to help prevent legitimate research being employed by terrorists. Leading academics have warned scientists that they must agree a system of...
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Lancaster rescues embattled linguist
An internationally renowned linguist has quit Austria for the UK amid a row tainted by allegations of political intolerance, anti-Semitism and misrepresentation. Ruth Wodak accepted a personal chair...
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'£200m to end fee deadlock'
Just over £200 million could end the deadlock between government and universities over who pays for top-up fee bursaries for students from poor homes, vice-chancellors said this week. They argued...
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V-cs rebuff plan to delay term start for PQA
Universities have rejected government suggestions that they delay the start of the academic year to accommodate a new student admissions system. Vice-chancellors are unhappy with government proposals...
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Students reject St Hilda's head
Students at Oxford's last remaining women-only college this week passed a vote of no confidence in their principal, Lady Judith English. Junior Common Room vice-president Lucy Meakin said...
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'Do not bank on spin-off income'
Government and universities are wrong to bank on private research being a significant source of income, the head of one of the world's leading technology-transfer offices said this week, writes...
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In the news: Frances Cairncross
The new head of Exeter College, Oxford, likes a wintry dawn dip in Highgate Ladies' Pond and has long been an advocate of legalising all drugs. A mixed blessing for the student body then. Frances...