Universities in Europe have been advised by a World Bank official to look to developing countries for inspiration rather than copying British and US models of higher education.
Scholars decry institutions' refusal to release data and desire for good news stories. Jack Grove writes
Anachronistic academic awards for students can pose headaches for long-suffering staff, writes Adrian Furnham
Flora Samuel welcomes an exuberant attack on a sphere dominated by greed and lack of vision
Howard Davies admires the aims of a defender of government but questions his certainties
Puppets are creepy. It tells you something that they are at the heart of Freud's brilliant and occasionally absurd reflections about the feeling of the uncanny, in his reading of the automaton...
I had so much to do last weekend. Apart from the usual domestic chores, there was my next book to work on, a conference paper to complete, and new lectures to think about. And there was this review...
Les Gofton is intrigued by the memoir of a scholar who finds modern life deeply disappointing
The "puzzle" here, according to Rik Smits, is that while left-handedness is an enduring characteristic of humans, it has long been seen as an aberration, linked to all sorts of negativity and widely...
With this book, Tom Devine, Scotland's best-known historian, completes a trilogy of surveys of Scotland at home and abroad. The Scottish Nation, 1700-2000 (1999) examined the rise of modern Scotland...
Another narrow Darwinian conception of economic behaviour tries Isabelle Szmigin's patience
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle described him as "lord of nobles, treasure-giver to men". The Welsh called him mechteyrn, "great king". The 12th-century historian William of Malmesbury said: "The whole of...
The continuing success of the slow food movement - the ethical, nutritional and aesthetic reaction to the meteoric rise of junk food during the 20th century - sadly appears to be accompanied by an...
Patrick Hannay reflects on the waste and diversion of energy by a movement that purported to cure a cultural malaise
LondonBetween Heaven and Earth: Contemporary Art from the Centre of AsiaFor many in the West, if they think about the area at all, Afghanistan, Mongolia and the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan...