First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a sardonic observer of Mayfair folk: "It was clearly going to be a bad...
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Why did Europe's imperial houses crumble?
Taking a reign check During the 19th and 20th centuries, European monarchies rose and fell in astonishing numbers. Included were three great monarchies that crumbled between 1917 and 1919. The...
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Quad wrangles
The departure of Stephen Tumim (right) from St Edmund's Hall has provoked its students to stage a sit-in. But is he the victim of an archaic college system that the government should scrap? Sian...
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At the city's ill heart
The type of welfare-to-work reforms so loved by new Labour will not protect the poor if the economy fails, warns William Julius Wilson, the top authority on US inner-city poverty. He talks to Tim...
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Is an interview really necessary?
Oxbridge still has face-to-face meetings to select students, but most universities have stopped. Marya Burgess looks at how choices are made and what to watch out for More and more universities are...
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Salami slicers taken to task
Richard Nicholson argues that the requirement that most doctors undertake some research pushes them towards unethical behaviour At long last the medical establishment, or parts of it, are beginning...
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Are British academics too obsequious to write good royal history?
Monarchs have been shot, ridiculed, worshipped, even canonised, but they have not made much impact on academics. American and British historians are about to change that British scholars often write...
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Monarchs have been shot, ridiculed, worshipped, even canonised, but they have not made much impact on academics
Monarchs have been shot, ridiculed, worshipped, even canonised, but they have not made much impact on academics. American and British historians are about to change that Over the years kings and...
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Taking a reign check
Portraits of the royal family can tell us much about how their subjects' view them, argues Charles Saumarez Smith George VI is having tea in the Royal Lodge, Windsor with his family. The King is...
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More warrior queen than Mrs Brown
Recent biographers of Queen Victoria have become so familiar with "the private Victoria" that they have neglected the public figure known to her subjects, says Walter Arnstein, professor of history...
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Why the Windsors are more than a tabloid farce
Ben Pimlott tells Harriet Swain why academics should take the British monarchy seriously When Ben Pimlott was preparing his biography of Elizabeth II last year, he ran into a former colleague. "I...
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Fact file
Findings from the Higher Education Statistics Agency for 1996-97 reveal that: * 122 institutions reported a surplus in 1997 compared with 116 in 1996 * 59 institutions reported a deficit in 1997...
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Experience sans frontires
EUROPEAN ministers have announced the launch of a "training passport" that will allow young people to have work experience recorded throughout the European Union.
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A brave new green world
New universities are pioneering the use of environmental policies. Julia Hinde reports "Sustainable development is very much a mainstream higher education issue", Scottish education minister Brian...
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No beggar's banquet
Alumnus to be proud of No 176 is tax expert Mick Jagger. Proof at last that the old boy learnt something from that truncated spell at the London School of Economics.