Film review: The British Guide to Showing Off
The glamour, the imagination, the fabulous frocks - as Will Brooker says, we can all be queens for a day
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TV reviews: Top Boy & Search for Satan
The harsh realities of the drug business on a Hackney estate give Gary Day food for thought
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Katrina Honeyman, 1950-2011
An inspirational mentor, an exceptionally productive academic and a dedicated fan of Arsenal Football Club, Katrina Honeyman was popular with staff and students alike.Born in London on 18 June 1950,...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Campus round-up
Oxford/ImperialEyes are the prizeThe first gene therapy for choroideraemia - a degenerative disease that causes incurable blindness - has been carried out as part of a trial involving two...
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Odds and quads: The University of Leeds International Textiles Archive
The University of Leeds International Textiles Archive includes embroidery, fibres, stencils and pattern books, slides of processing equipment and stunning fabrics from places as far afield as...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education
? Wanted: graduates with beer bellies, piercings, tattoos - and high-level hacking skills. While many in the West might lose weight and erase body art in return for a job, the Chinese army is easing...
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Leader: Whoa! You forgot the road map
In its reckless rush for change, the government is endangering the charitable public-interest mission at the sector's core
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From where I sit - The social and political network
Just as the media, in the shape of US news channel CNN, surprised the world with coverage of the First Iraq War, now it is social media's turn to astonish us.This seems to have happened first when...
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Appointments
University of Central LancashirePhilip DyerThe University of Central Lancashire has appointed an alumnus as its first entrepreneur in residence. Philip Dyer, chairman of NXO and regional president of...
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Research Intelligence - Phantom and parasitical menaces
Ghost- and guest writing raise a host of concerns for medical scholarship. Paul Jump reports
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Passionate intensity
The best careers advice? Follow your enthusiasms, says Kevin Fong
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10 November 2011
Undercover investigations - Bureaucracy is making real scholarship a clandestine pursuit
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V-c quits over Australian admissions scandal
The vice-chancellor of an Australian university is to step down along with his deputy over “irregularities” that helped a close relative to secure a place at the institution.