HEFCE launches 12 private initiatives
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has unveiled 12 "pathfinder" projects for private finance, valued at Pounds 119 million. The projects, ranging from the relocation of a business...
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Shards of genius
How we learn to speak is a mystery. Neil Smith and Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli have studied a savant who speaks 20 languages but struggles to put on a shirt. Readers of this newspaper probably consider...
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Englishman heads Monash
David Robinson has become the only Englishman in the past 20 years to have been successively appointed vice chancellor at two Australian universities. A former pro vice chancellor at the University...
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Race case switches admission quota rule
Conservatives hope an Appeals Court ruling against using race as a basis of admissions to the University of Texas has sounded the death knell for affirmative action programmes across the United...
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Tashkent masterminds
Nearly three years ago a group of European Union specialists came to Uzbekistan in former Soviet Central Asia to launch a programme to train teachers of business management. The aim was to set in...
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Turks take to streets over tuition
Turkey is in the grip of growing student unrest over the imposition of higher tuition fees by the national university administration, YOK. The disturbances are the worst the country has experienced...
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Micawber factor
Your report of the findings of the Public Accounts Committee on the operations of the Student Loans Company (THES, March 22) rightly records the amount of the total outstanding loan portfolio which...
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A nation minded to murder?
Hitler's Willing Executioners
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True tales from the black Lubyanka
The KGB's Literary Archive
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Hammering out the siècle
Fin de Siècle
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Mall things bright and beautiful
Consumer Rites
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England's broken dolls
Dismembering the Male
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This little piggy went to market
The Consumption of Culture 1600-1800 - Acknowledging Consumption - Consuming Habits
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The 'we' in western
Occidentalism
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a founding father whose vessel eventually found a berth at Canary Wharf: "One day, I hope, I trust, the sweet winds will rise up again, our sails will open and the...