Janet Finch Vice-chancellor of Keele University and chair of the Joint Equality Steering Group I have agreed to chair the new Joint Equality Steering Group. It is the governing body for an initiative...
Admissions reform is not enough to widen participation, say Louise Archer and Alistair Ross Last week's select committee report on higher education access focused on the wrong end of the problem....
Why should the old universities receive more funding for doing less? asks Paul Mackney It is not often that you get rewarded for poor performance, but last Friday Tony Blair decided to make an...
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a Nobel prize-winning novelist who once commanded a rocket ship: " There was an area east of the Isle...
Was there a distinctive British Enlightenment? Jeremy Black assesses a work that claims the age of reason flowered in a singularly British display. That there was a British Enlightenment is an...
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Niall Ferguson argues that most historical studies neglect economic forces. He wants to reverse that trend. Sean Coughlan reports Money. We all deal with it every day, and we could all do with more...
Tourette syndrome is less about bad language and more about poor communication. Adam James reports. It is easy to misunderstand one PhD researcher as he walks the corridors of the psychology...
Kellogg's two-week challenge diet might sound like a dubious marketing scam for breakfast cereals, but it is backedby some leading nutritionists, writes Olga Wojtas The cabbage soup diet. The steak...