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Colleges fear jobs at risk as places cut
Small institutions want compensation for reduction in places for teacher and nurse training. Tony Tysome reports. Jobs in specialist higher education colleges could be under threat unless lost...
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Who got that cash?
The most important commercial radio archive in the UK will be preserved for academic use thanks to a ?750,000 grant. Academics at Bournemouth University's Media School have been awarded the money to...
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Lecturer steals drivers' vehicle to lobby PM for more pay
Inspired by the example of angry motorists who gathered the signatures of more than a million and a half people to fight government proposals for road charging, lecturers have turned to the Downing...
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Research councils’ budgets slashed by ?68m
Scores of academics will be denied research grants, postdoctoral research positions will be scrapped and hundreds of PhD students could be prevented from embarking on academic careers it was warned...
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A life spent in worship of la liberte
Alexis de Tocqueville
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They remember, but others forget
Historians
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A pioneering cutter with a conscience
Digging up the Dead
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Unclear look at uncertain danger
Countering Terrorism
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First Impressions
This week's competition, to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a succ s de scandale that was considered dangerously immoral and banned in many countries: "As you see, my dear Sophie,...
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Mirrors that reveal our past selves
The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology
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Compromises of tuning
How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (And Why You Should Care)
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The value of trivial pursuits
Queuing, park railings, the history of crossing the road... Joe Moran's research into the 'bleeding obvious' yields fascinating insights into historical and political changes Is the trivia of...
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Don't hide the sins of yesteryear
In their attempt to promote 'Britishness', politicians and historians these days seem increasingly to find reasons to celebrate the Empire while playing down the many horrors that arose from it,...
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Temples of learning
How far should universities go to accommodate the demands of religious groups, asks Alex Klaushofer. Times are certainly changing for the devout on Britain's campuses. According to many leaders of...