Labour appoints fresh face to replace John Denham
The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has appointed former employment lawyer Chuka Umunna as the new shadow business secretary following a cabinet reshuffle today.

The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has appointed former employment lawyer Chuka Umunna as the new shadow business secretary following a cabinet reshuffle today.
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings’ Engineering & Technology subject ranking includes a wide range of narrower subject areas, defined by our data partners Thomson Reuters. The...
Phil Baty describes the methodological refinements that have made the 2011-12 rankings even more accurate and comprehensive No project that seeks to reduce the amazing variety of university activity...
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings’ Social Sciences subject ranking includes a wide range of narrower subject areas, defined by our data partners Thomson Reuters. The full list of...
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings’ Physical Sciences subject ranking includes a wide range of narrower subject areas, defined by our data partners Thomson Reuters. The full list...
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings’ Life Sciences subject ranking includes a wide range of narrower subject areas, defined by our data partners Thomson Reuters. The full list of ...
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings’ Clinical, Pre-clinical & Health subject ranking includes a wide range of narrower subject areas, defined by our data partners Thomson...
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings’ Arts and Humanities subject ranking includes a wide range of narrower subject areas, defined by our data partners Thomson Reuters. The full...

In MIT's sesquicentennial year, Susan Hockfield looks back at its founding principles and their lessons for an uncertain future
Despite exhortations to academics to collaborate, jointly authored research still draws some suspicion. Co-authors Janet Beer and Avril Horner are adamant that, with the right chemistry, such efforts...

A year after the Browne Report's publication, Fred Inglis excoriates the application of a bankrupt neoliberal ideology to the academy, and calls for scholars to rise up and free the truth from the...

Even in the upper echelons of the Third Reich, one man's cruelty stood out, writes Richard J. Evans

Despite laws and mores forbidding aggression, the appetite for bloodshed lingers, finds Joanna Bourke
This lavish and beautiful volume, illustrated with colour photographs by Amit Pasricha, surveys one of the world's most sumptuous groups of buildings and gardens erected under the aegis of an...
What do you get if you cross a philosophical look at jokes with a liberal thinker in favour of toleration? Answer: Emrys Westacott! Laugh? I almost did. That is until I got to the bit about posh...