Appointments - 4 April 2013
University of LincolnHugh ByrdHugh Byrd, who has just joined the University of Lincoln as professor of architecture, joked that he must be 鈥渃razy鈥 to swap New Zealand for the East Midlands. 鈥淚 have a...

University of LincolnHugh ByrdHugh Byrd, who has just joined the University of Lincoln as professor of architecture, joked that he must be 鈥渃razy鈥 to swap New Zealand for the East Midlands. 鈥淚 have a...

The continent鈥檚 burgeoning economies could prove a major source of future student recruitment, says Marguerite Dennis

In an alternative universe, Christopher Bigsby is coining it in Vegas
I was amused to read recent Nobel prizewinner Sir John Gurdon鈥檚 account of his 鈥渃rippling school report鈥, which included the statement: 鈥淚 believe he has ideas about becoming a Scientist; on his...
It is academics who will have ultimate responsibility for ensuring that students get a 鈥渉igher鈥 - not merely a 鈥渇urther鈥 or a 鈥渟econdary鈥 - education in the new-style English higher education sector...
One looks to the humanities and the social sciences for rational analysis of human affairs. How astonishing, then, that a dean of arts and social sciences cannot distinguish between the justice of a...
My, that was a smug little piece by Felipe Fern谩ndez-Armesto (鈥淒ens of inequity鈥, Opinion, 21 March). Apparently in his youth there was 鈥渘o shame and no attested harm in a priest pinching a choirboy鈥...
Lisa Downing鈥檚 mantelpiece is truly terrifying (鈥溾楳onsters, never mirrors鈥欌, Culture, 21 March). Perhaps she has a bone to pick with her interior designer.Name and address supplied

Duncan Wu savours the cadence and nuance that a superb cast bring to this portrayal of the relationship between art and life

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

James T. Crouse on a book that should be on every politician鈥檚 reading list

Harriet Harriss discusses a paragon of joined-up thinking

John Pollard on a biography of a controversial head of the Catholic Church

Ursula King on the use and meaning of the absence of noise in religious beliefs and practices

Luciana Astiz on how seismology evolved from the combined observations of scientists and citizens