Economy needs '10,000 extra science graduates'
The UK needs to educate at least an extra 10,000 science graduates a year just to maintain its current industrial position, a major new report has concluded.
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Chemistry teachers encouraged with new scholarships
The Department for Education has announced the creation of around 130 new scholarships in chemistry to attract graduates into teaching the subject.
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Women's Library moves across town to the LSE
A renowned collection of women's history resources is moving to the London School of Economics.
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Poll suggests fear of debt is deterring poorest applicants
Fear of debt may be deterring large numbers of children from applying to university, a new study has suggested.
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Andreas Papandreou: The Making of a Greek Democrat and Political Maverick
Takis Pappas applauds this skilfully interwoven story of Greece's most controversial prime minister
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Shelley and Vitality
Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of those dead, white, male Romantic poets, has had a wonderfully shifting reputation. Since his death in 1822, Shelley has been an angel, a devil, a radical, an idealist, a...
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Travelling in Different Skins: Gender Identity in European Women's Oriental Travelogues, 1850-1950
How identity is constructed and performed has recently become a key concern in both gender and post-colonial studies. Travelling in Different Skins explores this interesting issue by focusing on the...
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Difficult Mothers: Understanding and Overcoming Their Power
Long-term misery caused by problematic maternal behaviour gives Janine Spencer pause for thought
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Beauty and the Beast
You read this book agog, as a Colombian "cosmic surgeon" - in Michael Taussig's words - presents breast implants for inspection: the 350cc Colombian megaboob weighs in alongside the 80cc Brazilian...
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The Life of a Leaf
The Life of a Leaf - what a great little title. As an evangelical botanist, I really wanted to like this book, and to be fair, throughout its pages I found myself becoming increasingly fond of Steven...
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Future at their fingertips (or in their pockets, anyway)
Students have so many devices: sector must be smart and tap them, says expert. Chris Parr writes
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Riotous assembly incites analysis
A conference aims to bring clarity to the motives for last year's civil unrest. Matthew Reisz writes
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News in brief
Parody prizeFishy research rewardedA demonstration that brain researchers can detect meaningful neural activity in dead fish was among the research projects honoured in this year's Ig Nobel prizes,...
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You have two minutes on your specialist subject, starting...now
Distil PhDs into 120 seconds: impossible? Not for the winners of a recent competition. Chris Parr reports
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Show your strengths - we won't fund weaknesses
Concentration on the cards as Ireland shifts to contractual cash. Jack Grove reports from Dublin