A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics, and Religion in Saudi Arabia, by Madawi Al-Rasheed
Pernille Arenfeldt on a fine counterargument to reductionist claims about women and Islam

Pernille Arenfeldt on a fine counterargument to reductionist claims about women and Islam

Roger Morgan on a peer鈥檚 review of Brussels鈥 weaknesses
The BUAV welcomes public discussion about animal experiments (鈥淎nimal research under the microscope鈥, 17 October). However, the fundamental flaw in universities hosting the Big Animal Research Debate...

Brownfield reclamation unites academics, artists and community

Major report on selective education used 鈥榠nappropriate鈥 references
Nicholas Till鈥檚 lament for the North Norfolk coastline and for pastoral sentiment in opera is聽well taken (鈥淓legy in a country churchyard鈥, 24 October). The lonely coast at Cley is聽ever more heavily...

Canada branch of London School of Business and Finance labelled an 鈥榰nlicensed private career college鈥 and told to halt teaching

On Halloween, Richard Sugg reveals how early stories of death from paralysing nightmares morphed into tales of vampires
Daniel Sokol makes a number of useful observations on university appeals (鈥淪tudents have a right to redress, so give them a fair hearing鈥, Opinion, 24 October). Like Sokol and others before him, the...

South African university鈥檚 research into academic department鈥檚 role in apartheid draws criticism from Afrikaaners

In Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the theme of academic titles makes a fleeting appearance. The title character is an academic archaeologist, and his young sidekick, Short Round, urges the...

LSE research points to Whitehall 鈥榯rying it on鈥

Coursework to be assessed for academic credit by member institutions

His portfolio safe, David Willetts can enjoy some stability and clarity, the very things v-cs would like from the minister

Reassurance and concerns stated over new framework鈥檚 requirements