It took a challenging and very special project to tempt John Scott, the former chief executive of the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, out of semi-retirement in his native New...
Ballots for national strikes in higher education have been delayed after a union included a typographical error in the formal notice sent to universities.
The University of Cumbria has appointed a new vice-chancellor, following a period of turmoil in its leadership and finances.
The Russell Group of large research-intensive universities has for the first time published a guide with advice on what A levels its institutions favour, suggesting that students should avoid more...
Union members at the University of the West of England are to strike over plans to cut jobs and make academics reapply for their positions.
Universities in England face a £180 million, 4 per cent cut to their teaching grant in the next academic year, along with additional cuts this year.
Via study-away sites, local partnerships, portals and fully fledged overseas campuses, ambitious universities in the West are increasingly keen to take root elsewhere. John Morgan asks how the...
What do your shoes say about you? More than you think, says Caroline Knowles. They hint at your class, job, where you live and even how you spend your leisure time
A magisterial study of radical thought has blind spots that perplex an admiring Willy Maley
Drowning in information, our predecessors stopped worrying and cut and pasted, says James Delbourgo
Nicholas Thomas creates such a clear sense of these islands and their heterogeneous peoples as a pulsing, productive set of entities that it comes as a shock to look at the map in the front of the...
Darwin was a lucky tourist. He travelled widely for five years in the 1830s on board HMS Beagle, gathering data and specimens that enabled him to make spectacular scientific breakthroughs. He did not...
Sir Drummond Bone warms to a sensitive account of the pressures incurred in leading a university
For a long while now the idea that modernity comes into being partly by casting off the medieval - leaving behind childish and spiritual things, as it were - has been readily accepted as an...
Between the end of the wars against Napoleon in 1815 and the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, some 50 million Europeans left for the New World. Almost two-fifths of these (more than 18...