Many an academic will be dragged to the cinema this summer by bored offspring determined to see the latest superhero film. But what kind of childhood heroes did scholars themselves have? Here, five...
Bibliophiles in the 1700s liked soundbites and sharing. Are we so different, asks Valerie Sanders
Peter J. Smith on a study of the interrelationship between visual culture and the theatre in 16th- and 17th-century England
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Andrew Southgate and Rob Turner offer some tips on organising a study-abroad trip following a visit to a Japanese university
Australian legislation proposes to lower the country’s generous loan repayment threshold – but some argue that it should rise even higher, says Andrew Norton
Tributes paid to land law expert who became Leicester pro vice-chancellor
The Italian scholar discusses how Machiavelli might have appraised current politics, the benefits of birdwatching and discovering Stevie Wonder
The publication game that researchers are obliged to play has stripped the purpose out of social research. Time to change the rules, says Yiannis Gabriel
Aarhus University has signed up companies to fund fundamental research in what it calls a ‘patent-free playground’
John Morgan witnesses a pioneering collaboration between two Sheffield universities, drawing upon the city’s manufacturing heritage to become a hub of industrial innovation and a model of civic...
The professor of history discusses the ‘crisis of multiculturalism in Europe’
Book of the week: A cancerous, consumer-driven capitalism has weakened higher education, says David Wheeler
Dip in number of applications puts students in the driving seat, say sector experts