To begin with, an irritation: historians long ago lost the battle to have footnotes where they should be, at the foot of each page, but there can be no excuse for a serious publisher to stick them at...
Mandy Merck evaluates a surprising study of a US icon's visionary, sometimes cosmic, cinema
The recent trial of Anders Breivik, the Norwegian man who went on a killing spree that left 77 people dead, focused very specifically on the defendant's state of mind. Was he deranged? Or was he...
My favourite science book is Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, so when I read Bryson's complimentary words on the dust jacket of The Spark of Life, I was impressed. This text is the...
Veteran 'journo-academic' calls for more jaw-jaw and less war-war. Matthew Reisz reports
Camille Paglia talks to Matthew Reisz about the US academy's prejudices and what the secular and the religious fail to understand about art
United StatesUnoriginal sinner stands downA prominent US journalist who admitted copying parts of an article from a rival publication has resigned from his position on a university's governing board...
A US Senate report damned the for-profit sector. John Morgan asks if it has lessons for the UK
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCILResponsive Mode GrantsValues are the amounts requested. Awarded amounts may differ.• Award winner: David Longbottom• Institution: Moredun...
Fellow humans, pay attention: algorithms are reshaping research from the inside out and we have barely noticed, warns David Beer
Some universities remain up to 600 students short of the number they need to recruit, amid suggestions that other institutions could be causing the shortfalls by "hanging on to" applicants who missed...
What is a deadline to the legally dead, spooks and spymasters? Jack Grove on extraordinary excuses
Only a fifth of humanities and social science academics regard it as acceptable for academic publishers to make a profit that is not reinvested in their disciplines.
Further education colleges are doing better than expected in attracting students from areas with low rates of higher education participation, but they also have higher-than-predicted dropout rates...
The University of Glasgow has declined to publish the findings of its investigation into suspected research misconduct by a former professor of immunopharmacology.