Do not throw that IB pearl away, richer than the impoverished A level
Anthony Seldon's plea to v-cs: stand up for the International Baccalaureate before it is too late, or the academy will suffer
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Searing honesty
Jon Baldwin has left for Australia, but he has a few home truths to impart from abroad about the mess the UK academy is in
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The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution
Sarah Toulalan lauds a look at how carnal crime and punishment gave way to a stress on private consent
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Travels in China
Impressions of an 'unknowable' China at the end of the Cultural Revolution fascinate Kerry Brown
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Browning, Victorian Poetics and the Romantic Legacy: Challenging the Personal Voice
Robert Browning remains an important standard against which other dramatic poets are measured. We recognise Browning primarily for the dramatic monologue, a poetic form that lends itself well to...
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How Literature Changes the Way We Think
The "medical humanities", the area in which the author, Michael Mack, now works, is a fairly new cross-disciplinary field: in the UK, King's College London and the universities of Durham and...
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The Chosen People: A Study of Jewish Intelligence and Achievement
Moshe Zeidner finds an analysis of Jewish success scores well on IQ but downplays social factors
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Democracy under Attack: How the Media Distort Policy and Politics
This is virtually a social history of modern Britain, told by someone who should know what he is talking about. Malcolm Dean joined The Guardian more than 40 years ago and was for many years its...
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The Curious History of Love
Sasha Roseneil is unswayed by a chronicle of intimacy that fails to reach the heart of the matter
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The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context
Perhaps it is the loneliness of the studio that has traditionally encouraged artists to hang out in social and stylistic groups. Think of the Impressionists and their Montmartre cafés, or the...
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Human Rights in Camera
This is an original and timely work, retelling the story of the development of the concept of human rights through the eyes of the "world spectator" and her confrontation with images of the suffering...
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Pseuds' corner
Baffled by the ease with which titles promising to turn world history on its head have won huge audiences despite defying logic and lacking proof, Daniel Melia laboured to divine the hidden secrets...
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Oxford opens up on graduate destinations
Oxford has stolen a march on the rest of the sector by exposing its graduate destinations to detailed scrutiny - exploding a few myths in the process. Simon Baker investigates
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The Pick - Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2012
Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2012Plymouth University, 10-12 FebruaryFrom a remix of a movement from Beethoven's Symphony No 7 to a quartet inspired by the landscape of Cornwall and...
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Diary
LondonHer Maj: 60 Years of Unofficial Portraits of the QueenAs late as the 1950s, it was still unusual for the monarchy to be depicted in cartoons. To celebrate the Diamond Jubilee, the Cartoon...