From politicians' failure to learn from past mistakes to the closure of university departments and the loss of specialist areas, evidence abounds that history is "in crisis". Yet the study of the...
Universities could see recent record financial surpluses wiped out if the decline in applications from some sections of the international-student market continues, the chair of governors at a Russell...
British academics working in the UK for wealthy US institutions are being urged to unionise to improve pay and to counter "potential threatening behaviour" from employers.
The most happily international higher education systems aren't the superpowers. John Gill writes
Government reforms challenged as MPs hear all providers face tough times. Sarah Cunnane writes
New Generation ThinkersAHRC joins BBC for a rerunAn initiative to identify and support "the next generation of public intellectuals" is to be repeated next year. The Arts and Humanities Research...
Students want to be better people; current policies hinder them, argue Paul Ashwin, Andrea Abbas and Monica McLean
The Netherlands has a workable system from which the UK could learn, says Paul Benneworth. But, be warned, it will involve compromise
It is ideology, not ignorance, that connects diverse groups on the political Right, finds Joanna Bourke
When the first detective branch of the Metropolitan Police was formed in 1842, the new "Peelers" had existed for 13 years and were just shaking off a reputation as spies and quasi-military bullies....
By focusing on one of Venice's 16th-century patricians, Marc'Antonio Barbaro, his political career and patronage, this book analyses the debates that fuelled international diplomacy and Venice's...
Barbara Graziosi on a grand historical narrative that fails to recognise the widespread roots of Europe
Exactly halfway through Moscow, The Fourth Rome, we read that "1935 might be described as the high point of Soviet internationalism". This assertion flies in the face of conventional historiography,...
With Worlds Apart: Bosnian Lessons for Global Security, the philanthropist, academic and former US ambassador to Austria, Swanee Hunt, has made an interesting and somewhat unusual contribution to a...
Twilight has a largely female fan base. It is time to re-evaluate female fan pleasure, says Will Brooker, and be alive to its magic