Research into eye disease, a ground-breaking creative writing course and work to improve food security has helped 18 universities to win Queen’s Anniversary prizes for higher and further education.
This year’s Times Higher Education Awards see the university’s three core missions of research, teaching and engagement represented in an array of innovation and inspiration. Among the research...
A US sociologist has been named as the new director of the London School of Economics.
Think you can tell which students are destined to be heroes or zeroes? Think again: as Geoffrey K. Pullum shows, his career and that of an old school chum demonstrate that potential can be difficult...
From mindless diversions to gripping, critically acclaimed dramas, what is it about box sets of television series that appeals to academics, asks Roger Luckhurst. Obviously, first-hand investigation...
That sentiment may be shared by many in the communities in which universities are located. But if the institutions disappeared, how much of a loss would it be to those cities? David Matthews weighs...
Susan James is impressed by an admirable study of a thinker who retains the power to disturb
Alex Danchev is ambivalent about a selection of images with status beyond their initial intent
Charles Kurzman, a sociologist and Iran specialist at the University of North Carolina, clearly enjoys the fact that, when faced with the statement he posits in his book's subtitle, security experts...
There were many flamboyant and charismatic figures at the Elizabethan Court, but Francis Walsingham was not one of them. Pessimistic and puritanical, a tireless administrator and notorious spymaster...
Kerry Brown agrees it will take time for mutual understanding as China engages with the world
The Castrato and His Wife opens with a brief sketch of a documented evening at the London residence of the Spanish ambassador, with the famed Farinelli (Carlo Broschi) the prime attraction, and then...
It was the year that marked the turning point of the Second World War and shaped the post-war world. 1941 began with Germany victorious in Western Europe and challenged only by a Britain that was...
United StatesWho left the dogs out?A university in the US is facing a multi-million-dollar bill for cleaning up the remains of nuclear experiments carried out more than five decades ago. The...
Franchised places must not be reclaimed from FE colleges, minister warns. David Matthews writes