The fictions and pretences of theatrical performance form the lens for this fascinating and highly personal memoir of fraught and dysfunctional family relationships. Characteristically for a work...
As someone who suffers recurrent palaeofantasies (don’t ask), I’m a sucker for this book’s title. The idea of exploring the strange things that 21st-century Homo sapiens gets up to in the name of...
Claimed to have been invented a century ago, the assembly line has long since lost the lustre it once enjoyed. Henry Ford is commonly credited with this remarkable achievement in 1913, but fellow...
Luciana Astiz on how seismology evolved from the combined observations of scientists and citizens
Students at the London School of Economics who were on a controversial visit to North Korea with undercover BBC journalists have hit out at the university, saying it has placed them in greater danger...
School pupils from poorer backgrounds could be contacted by the government to nudge them towards applying to university if they get good GCSE grades, David Willetts has said.
Podcast Powered By PodbeanThe BBC’s North Korea Panorama documentary, the financial threats facing universities, and fears that a two-tier PhD system is developing all feature on this Times Higher...
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Legal challenge helped save overseas students from deportation
A gender gap in researchers’ funding successes persists across Europe
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Wales’ institutions gain funds as a result of cross-border flow under new fees regime
University of South Wales is a behemoth with plans to become even bigger
Many doctoral candidates do not make clear their work’s scholarly contribution