PhD: the gateway to employment
The time and effort spent gaining a PhD is repaid handsomely in excellent career prospects, according to research presented at the Vitae researcher development conference today.A study of doctoral...
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Recession hits US private fundraising, but others do better
As alumni donations to US universities plummet, Canada and Asia forge ahead. Hannah Fearn writes
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And now for something completely different, Wolverhampton v-c decides
The vice-chancellor of the University of Wolverhampton is to retire next summer as she feels it is “time to do something else” after 40 years of full-time work.Caroline Gipps, who was appointed by...
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To every page, turn, turn, turn
Dale Salwak laments the decline of deep reading under the baleful influence of the online age, and rallies to the defence of the love of learning, the sequestered nooks and the sweet serenity of books
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Art on its own account
John Haldane muses on artist David Tremlett's ability to take on a space and transform it into something living, in a compelling affirmation of the essential domesticity of the creative act
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We can work it out
As graduates struggle to find employment, universities are having to think more creatively about how to prepare them for the workplace, says Rebecca Attwood
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Destination of the Species: The Riddle of Human Existence
When people joke about the meaning of life, it is a sure sign they are fretful. Is life driven by point and purpose, or is it a chaotic, rudderless and aimless flux? Was Shakespeare's ruminating...
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Slapped by the Invisible Hand: The Panic of 2007
Victoria Bateman believes this analysis of the banking crisis could help prevent a repetition
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Born into a Dream: EuroFaculty and the Council of the Baltic Sea States
In 1996 I was invited by the Council of the Baltic Sea States to chair a committee of Western European political scientists, economists and lawyers charged with the task of inspecting and evaluating...
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Household Servants in Early Modern England
In this new survey of well mapped if politically contentious terrain, R.C. Richardson sets out fresh and important queries. Why has the history of household service recently become fashionable via...
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Published this week
ARTS AND DESIGN- Between Art and Anthropology: Contemporary Ethnographic PracticeBy Arnd Schneider, professor of social anthropology, University of Oslo; and Christopher Wright, lecturer in...
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Book of the Week: The Moment of Caravaggio
Alex Danchev takes a thrilling ride that immerses the reader in the work of Caravaggio but bypasses his infamous personal life
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The Reformation of the English Parish Church
On the eve of the Reformation, Lucy Wooding is struck by the evidence of popular piety
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Sophistication: A Literary and Cultural History
'Sophistication' eludes definition, and yet provocatively invites us to pursue, capture and possess it." So Faye Hammill begins her fascinating and engaging study of the je ne sais quoi of...
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The Canon: Outwitting the Gestapo by Lucie Aubrac
In this, the 70th anniversary year of Charles de Gaulle's appeal to the French people to continue their fight against the occupying Germans, it is timely to review one of the most important books...