Glory in Excelsior!
Superhero comics gave Stephen Mumford the reading bug at an early age and a passion for the form he retains to this day. Even in the blockbuster era, he says, panels can't be beat...
Superhero comics gave Stephen Mumford the reading bug at an early age and a passion for the form he retains to this day. Even in the blockbuster era, he says, panels can't be beat...
Government plans for the 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England are ringing alarm bells across the sector. Can it really become a consumer protection body and fund universities without...
Still looking for Christmas gifts? You might be inspired by a book on Renaissance accessories. Matthew Reisz writes
Government Art Collection, Selected by Simon Schama: Travelling LightWhitechapel Gallery, London, until 26 FebruaryAt 25, Lord Byron was the ultimate matinee idol, posing in Albanian dress with...
BBC Radio 4The Mumbai ChuzzlewitsConvinced that his relatives are after his money, wealthy old landlord Martin Chuzzlewit has adopted an orphan called Mary as his carer. Although she will be housed...
A Personal Christmas Message from the Office of the President and Vice-ChancellorThis is inevitably that very special time of year when the thoughts of all those of us who continue to uphold and...
Baroness Blackstone is rightly concerned about the social filtering going on in UK higher education ("Super-selection creates a monoculture that does not benefit society", 15 December). It is...
I thought it was hilarious that, in an article on the progress being made by Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws at Mansfield College to promote fair access to the University of Oxford ("For fair access,...
I notice that whenever people rush to declare what Christianity has done for us and to proclaim the West's historical debt to it, they tend to don rather rosy glasses.R. Iestyn Daniel (Letters, 15...
R. Iestyn Daniel is arguably right to assert that the "West" owes a historical debt to Christianity.However, he spins a Eurocentric, teleological historical narrative when he declares that...
The findings of the Equality Challenge Unit's report that you cover under the headline "76% white and male? That's today's UK professoriate" (15 December) should be no surprise to anyone. There have...
You report that 76 per cent of UK professors are white men. Unfortunately, that is not surprising. Indeed, it really understates the problem because in addition, very few of them have beards, either...
I worked with Gillian Radcliffe, who recently resigned as head of communications at the London College of Communication ("PR chief's parting shot cites LCC head's 'unfair' management style", 15...
The picture of Lieutenant General George Francis Milne's desk, embellished with artefacts of death and destruction (Odds and Quads, 15 December), made me wonder whether a (slight mis)-quote of the...
Does every university need a bookshop? Should universities encourage booksellers to locate their enterprises on the campus?These are the questions raised by the sudden closure of Blackwell's bookshop...