Illume the heart of darkness
Yes, a great many so-called "historical" novels are trash ("History in the faking", 18 November). Is War and Peace also trash? I ask mainly because Leo Tolstoy was scathing about the contributions of...
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If always broke, fix it
Peter Geoghegan argues that the massive student protest in London on 10 November reflected real anger and is likely to be the first of many ("Student riots, the first taste of the fruits of unbridled...
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Great - more red tape!
Aaron Porter, the president of the National Union of Students, is absolutely right ("New market, new rules: NUS signals consumer revolution", 18 November). Only by diverting a greater proportion of...
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Law of the excluded middle
As an American teenager, I considered many West Coast and New England institutions, but after a visit to the University of St Andrews, I realised that it was a cheaper option - even with the expense...
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Mission impossible
I'm afraid Martin A. Mills is deluded ("A grand unified theory of man", 18 November). Such a theory is neither possible nor desirable, because it could never accommodate the natural and social...
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Meditation's what you need
Meditation is not a fitting member of a list of "treatments that many regard as having unproven efficacy at best" ("No 'magic bullet': try this amulet", 18 November).The mental-health benefits that...
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There's more to a story than facts and figures
The Freedom of Information Act enables public access to scientists' research data, but can scientific knowledge really be extracted in this way? Scientists should engage with the public, but need to...
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Achieving critical mass
This should be the age of reason but we are failing to foster the intellectual skills that could liberate student minds. Linda Elder argues that we should embed critical thinking at the heart of the...
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Film review: The American
Duncan Wu finds unexpected depth in a tale of a fearful assassin, but not in the lead's acting
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25 November 2010
Vexed questions - Science comes to terms with the impact of Freedom of Information requests
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Gove shifts teacher training from academy to schools
The government has set out plans to radically reform teacher training.
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鈥楽alami-sliced鈥 budget is more palatable than abandoning entire research fields, Brian Cox argues
鈥淪alami-slicing鈥 the research budget is preferable to making 鈥渆xtremely dangerous鈥 decisions to cease funding whole areas of research, according to physicist Brian Cox.
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Tough new restrictions to target 'abuse' of student visa system
The government is to slash the number of foreign students studying in the UK, as well as reducing the number of visas for highly skilled workers by a fifth.New visa restrictions were outlined today...
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A plea for engagement
By Dan Berrett for Inside Higher Ed
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Universities fear the effects of plan to curb immigration
Fears are growing about the effects of a sharp reduction in immigration on universities as the government prepares to announce cuts to student visas.The 糖心Vlog Secretary, Theresa May, is this week...