Japan learns web language
Twenty-one-year-old Takehiro Shinkai spends 12 hours a week learning English at a language school in Tokyo and just ten hours a week attending the lectures and workshops which make up the information...
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Degree system for scrapheap
The classified honours degree system should be scrapped, academics and higher education managers have concluded. It is out of step with a mass higher education sector and the need for more explicit...
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Retreat on equality
London University's Birkbeck College has withdrawn an equal opportunities statement in its media studies course material after the Freedom Association complained it smacked of "Orwellian thought...
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Medicinal foods fuel debate
Ethnobotanists are re-examining years of data and revisiting distant indigenous peoples as they discover that information they have collected about medicines has a gaping hole. Ethnobotanists and...
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Two-tone cash call
In successive weeks, the 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England is putting out its major consultation documents on the two main things academics are meant to do - teaching and research. The two...
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Medical review about posts not individuals
Your leader and article on the senior management review at the Medical Research Council (THES, June 14) contained inaccuracies and misconceptions. The reviews of all seven research councils were not...
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Calling on deaf ears
As church congregations shrink and fewer people enter the ministry, some denominations are sharing the training of their clergy. Simon Midgley reports One side of the cross that stands in the grounds...
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Graduate vacancies set to soar once more
The campaign to close Britain's skills gap is sparking a graduate recruitment boom not seen since the halcyon days of the 1980s, writes Simon Targett. The country's major companies are expecting...
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Mersey connects online benefits to public
Pick a house on Brookside Close and discover, at a few clicks of a button, what domestic traumas it has witnessed and how many bodies are buried in the back garden. Alternatively, take a tour of...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a professor and poet from County Derry: "I am neither internee nor informer;/ An inner emigre, grown long-haired/ And thoughtful; a wood-kerne Escaped from the...
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Speaking Volumes: Mimesis
John Fuegi on Erich Auerbach's Mimesis . It seems madly improbable that Mimesis should have been written at all. Its author was a German-Jewish intellectual and it was written in German in Istanbul...
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A look at what was left
Popular Radicalism in 19th-Century Britain
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Greenwich observatory
Joys and Sorrows
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Inarticulating the inarticulate
The Spivak Reader
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Nelson's gewgaws
The Nelson Companion - The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy