Oxford increases offers to state school pupils
Oxford's colleges have published breakdowns on the proportions of offers to pupils from state and independent schools for this autumn's intake (below). The House of Commons select committee on...
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Northern committed to merger despite delay
Northern College, Scotland's last free-standing college of education, has missed the anticipated August 1 deadline for its merger with Aberdeen and Dundee universities. The three institutions stress...
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Tories claim A levels are getting easier
The Conservatives have called on the government to review the A-level system after a study indicated that results have been "adjusted downwards" in recent years. Carol Fitz-Gibbon, professor of...
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Scottish music school launches BA in piping
The skirl of the bagpipes is about to achieve academic respectability. Today sees the launch of the world's first degree in piping, a collaboration between the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an anthropologist who finds the tropics sad: " It has long been the fashion to invoke languages which...
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Painters' brushes with identity crisis
In the Image of Tibet
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Persian spiritual pain
Rumi, Past and Present, East and West
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A gem to be fished out of the tub
Angelaki
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Indicating the way out of slack waters
The medieval History Journal
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Revised views of a scattered people
Jewish Culture and History
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A look back at past masters
Encounters
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Where the monumental meets the minute
Egyptian Art in the Age of the pyramids - The Cairo Museum - Pharaohs of the Sun
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No need to hold the front page
The Daily Globe
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Willing servants emerge from shadow of Everest
Life and Death on Mt Everest
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How the world escaped nemesis
The Kennedys and Cuba