Undergraduate study has a lot to do with social development, but postgraduates have a very clear idea of what they want from their course The idea of self-directed learning is really very true. The younger students ask the unspeakable questions and the older ones have the experience.” Although he received 280 applications for the [...]

He’s a troubadour almost, singing stories.”The music was worked out alongside the dancing, with a lot of overlap. Even so, Blush wasn’t always choreographed to the music that now accompanies it. It’s not a clear reference.” But he wanted to suggest the film’s sense of isolation and intensity.The music for Blush is by the [...]

Sales of Joseph O’Connor’s Star of the Sea have risen by 337 places in the UK best-seller chart since it featured on the couple’s book club slot on 22 January. At one point, he receives the gift of a mysterious woman wrapped up like an Interflora bouquet and is so flummoxed as to what [...]

A harrowing account of how two British climbers survived a disastrous mountaineering expedition beat Richard Curtis’s romantic comedy Love Actually to a best film award yesterday.
Touching the Void, in which Joe Simpson and Simon Yates recount their 1985 ordeal in the Andes while actors reconstruct their experiences, won the top prize in the Evening [...]

Whether it signifies the end of a skiing holiday depends on the severity – a mild sprain of the MCL could see you back on piste in a couple of days, while a ruptured ACL means it’s time to change your flights. With more and more skiers and boarders vying for space on already [...]

Gordon Brown will be both a commissioner and will chair its finance sub-group.”These are highly geared-up people,” Mr Geldof says, “and the mix suggests it will not be a commission of Yes-men The brief will be far wider than economics. It will look at the cultural and philosophical framework which explains what really drives [...]

I thought I had the match won after 15 but that’s the danger of matchplay.”. Ian Poulter produced an impressive debut win over Chris Riley at the last despite a new putter which misbehaved so much it was immediately taken out of the bag after the round.Lee Westwood was beaten 3 and 1 by [...]

Their cases will be considered by the US Anti-Doping Agency, which provided one of the witnesses for UKA in the Chambers case last week.USA Track & Field have been repeatedly accused in recent years of failing to punish athletes who tested positive, but Pound, the president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, believes that US [...]

But you have to go with modern times, and I think having a full-time personal trainer would help prolong players’ careers.”Capriati, who had defeated the 35th-ranked Daniilidou in their three previous hard-fought matches, said her back began to ache towards the end of the second set yesterday. “I got a bit fatigued, and probably [...]

That Fortune and McCarthy should have found themselves on the scoresheet in the Dragao was a nice touch. Both, possessed of deeply contrasting characters, had grown up together in the post-apartheid streets of Cape Town. For an international goalkeeper, Baia’s handling is suspect and as Paul Scholes’ free-kick curled past the wall he could [...]