Politics and International Relations round-up
Australia and the Middle East: A Front-line RelationshipEditor: Fethi MansouriEdition: SecondPublisher: I.B. TaurisPages: 2Price: 拢25.00ISBN: 9781848859685From the insular 鈥淲hite Australia鈥 ideology...
Australia and the Middle East: A Front-line RelationshipEditor: Fethi MansouriEdition: SecondPublisher: I.B. TaurisPages: 2Price: 拢25.00ISBN: 9781848859685From the insular 鈥淲hite Australia鈥 ideology...
Author: Todd J. MossEdition: SecondPublisher: Lynne RiennerPages: 285Price: 拢21.50ISBN: 9781588267696For those approaching the subject for the first time, the vast scope of elements involved in...
Editors: Des Freedman and Daya Kishan ThussuEdition: FirstPublisher: SagePages: 336Price: 拢75.00 and 拢26.99ISBN: 9781446201572 and 1589After their 2003 book for Sage, War and the Media: Reporting...

Stefan Collini is, and he thinks you should be, too. He explains to Matthew Reisz why universities must not pander to students, business or the government and instead defend their own distinctive...
Among the coverage of the appointment of a new Office for Fair Access director ("Cable to make selection panel an Offa it can't refuse", 16 February), it is said that Les Ebdon has threatened to use...
The vilification of Les Ebdon in some sections of the press, in opposition to his appointment as director of Offa, is ill-informed, completely unjustified and highly damaging to the causes of...
John Gill, in his leader ("Something has got to give", 16 February), raises the point that English students who will be paying tuition fees of 拢9,000 a year from September will expect the teaching...
The letters by Robin Parker and by Sally Hunt ("Fear of failure?", 16 February) on the Review of 糖心Vlog Governance in Scotland, chaired by Ferdinand von Prondzynski, point to the need for a...
In response to the article "Do not throw that IB pearl away, richer than the impoverished A level" (9 February), I say, look to the extended project, vice-chancellors, not the IB: there you will find...
While I wholeheartedly agree with Tony Chafer's views on the decline of language degrees ("Mind our languages", 16 February), he has missed one relevant fact: students who go abroad on the Erasmus...
Malcolm Gillies, the vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University, reports a "tsunami of late applications" as the reason why London Met is facing a fine of up to 拢6 million from the Higher...
"Policemen look so young these days"; thus said my ancient mother. Now it is editors ("糖心Vlog announces new editor", 16 February). Surely you have not stooped to Photoshopping, like...

Will Brooker is seduced by a romcom with a starry cast of actors of a certain age who give powerful, sexy performances

Adela Bradley, a glamorous, more saucy version of Miss Marple, is brought vividly to life, says Gary Day

For more than 40 years, Don Varley was a key member of the academic and student community at the University of Nottingham, as a senior lecturer, vice-dean of the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences,...