Participation would fall if fees rise without extra aid
First submissions to review of fees and finance describe how costs affect applications. Melanie Newman reports
First submissions to review of fees and finance describe how costs affect applications. Melanie Newman reports

Graham Farmelo delights in a top physicist's views on science, policy and faith
Nurturing gifted employees will benefit workers and employers - it makes sense to David Orford
In this cleverly constructed book, several of the puzzles of present-day neurology are considered alongside accounts of the lives and times of those with whom they are eponymously associated....
Not only do we not know what the future holds; often we have little idea what the past holds. For Francis Bacon: "Time is like a river, which has brought down to us things light and puffed up, while...
Hidden victims of Stalinist suppression are revealed, finds Harold Shukman
Daniel Miller's Stuff brings together in one compact volume a deftly rewritten and engaging retrospective summary of 30 years of cultural anthropology carried out in the Caribbean, London, India and...

This work's narrow focus misses women's suffering and lack of redress, argues Rosemary Hunter
? = Review forthcomingCLASSICS- New Heroes in Antiquity: From Achilles to AntinoosBy Christopher P. Jones, George Martin Lane professor of the Classics and of history, Harvard University. Harvard...

Lord Mandelson's insistence that universities were merely "crying wolf" over the impact of the new funding cuts would appear to be contradicted by the recent experience of our Director of Finance, Mr...
Alan Ryan favours imagination over exaggeration when it comes to cutbacks
A collaborative strategy will prioritise research into how to feed an expanding population. Neha Popat reports
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Twelve years ago, after failing in seven subjects at school, Han Han's father took him to the headmaster's office to complete the paperwork for dropouts. There he was asked by a sympathetic teacher...