Events
BLACKBURN'S RETROSPECTIVE. A retrospective of David Blackburn's work will be exhibited at the Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, until October 1 (Monday to Friday 10am-6pm; Saturday 11am-6pm, Sundays...
BLACKBURN'S RETROSPECTIVE. A retrospective of David Blackburn's work will be exhibited at the Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, until October 1 (Monday to Friday 10am-6pm; Saturday 11am-6pm, Sundays...
A conference next week in Glasgow aims to get nation speaking unto nation on the subject of English. John Davies reports. If there is one place British insularity will be firmly resisted next week,...
A record number of courses have been offered through clearing this year, a total of 14,500 compared with 11,000 last year. In all 211,678 students have so far accepted places compared to 197,971 by...
The independent state of Belarus has ordered the replacement of all university textbooks on history, literature and the social sciences with material from the Soviet era, in an effort to combat...
Ged Martin takes a serious look at the historical darlings and devils of English popular culture. As a term of abuse, "populist" is used by intellectuals to reconcile their own elitism with a...
(Photograph) - Course countdown: admissions tutor Jenny Reed (right) and administrator Pat Graydon of the University of the West of England match students to places as clearing gets under way.
Queen's University, Belfast is having to check all 1,500 medical photographs held on a pilot orthopaedic teaching database, which until last Friday was linked to the World Wide Web, after a complaint...
The Freud of her generation or a logical, objective academic? Celia Kitzinger meets anthropologist Jean La Fontaine, author of a controversial report into satanic abuse. Anthropologists are not used...
John Newton recollects what it was like to be taught by the two mutually hostile giants of English literary criticism, F. R. Leavis and Harold Mason. No man can serve two masters." A few people have...
How did the daughter of a German-Polish factory worker who didn't speak Russian convince people she was the child of Tsar Nicholas II? Because, says John Klier, the public wanted to believe in...
Universities should stop pandering to a small elite of athletes and instead promote fitness for the masses by scrapping playing fields in favour of multipurpose indoor sports centres, argues Richard...
"Sport for all is important, but helping the elite and developing excellence is also important. There's always a balancing act, but I don't think the British Universities and Colleges Physical...
"It's very difficult for most universities to put forward a rugby squad to compete at the highest level, because the best players are going to toddle back to wherever their first call is. "But in...
"I endorse the idea of catering for as many people as possible. Obviously we would encourage outstanding talent if it's there, but we're very much into fitness and health for everyone. Any student...
"Birmingham University has produced five of the 1994-95 England women's lacrosse team, and three senior men's hockey internationals last year. But for 55 years it has been supporting sport for the...