Hesa points to degrees of growing success
The proportion of students gaining good degrees is continuing to climb, according to official figures published today.
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The fruits of Californication
The Golden State's mix of public planning, spin-off innovation and private excellence has made it one of the global academy's powerhouses. But funding cuts threaten the University of California's pre...
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Loving and Hating Mathematics: Challenging the Myths of Mathematical Life
Tony Mann is inspired by a book that debunks the stereotypical view of men and women of numbers
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Sex Before the Sexual Revolution: Intimate Life In England 1918-1963
Petra Boynton surveys a candid and moving account of the sexual mores of an older generation
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The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V
The economist Adam Smith described the European discovery of the Americas as the "greatest and most important event recorded in the history of mankind". Despite what we know about the brutality and...
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Within Walls: Private Life in the German Democratic Republic
The German Democratic Republic, its life and demise, has garnered its fair share of academic attention over the past 20 years. Moreover, popular films such as Good Bye, Lenin! and The Lives of Others...
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The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth
Tom F. Wright admires a spirited attempt to restore some justice to the woman Dickens wrote off
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Death in War and Peace: A History of Loss and Grief in England, 1914-1970
It is particularly heartening to read scholastic work that is both accessible to a non-academic audience and intellectually stimulating for those working in the academic arena. In Death in War and...
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The Performance of Politics: Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power
The political theorist, Judith Shklar, once commented that in order to understand political conduct, it is not enough merely to study instrumentalist-rationalist behaviour and related outcomes, as...
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A nation's saving grace
Religious diversity in the US is more a force for tolerance than for discord, argues scholar Robert Putnam. Jon Marcus reports
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Diary
LondonThe Land of Light and Promise: Ludwig Blum (1891-1974), a 20th-century OrientalistThe works of the classically trained Czech-born Israeli topographical artist Ludwig Blum, perhaps the finest of...
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Where would we be without them?
Our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, has announced that Poppleton will be paying "no attention whatsoever" to recent research from the University of Madrid, which shows that...
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Kevin Boyle, 1943-2010
An academic who stood at the centre of the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland has died.Kevin Boyle, emeritus professor of international human rights law at the University of Essex, was a key...
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TV review: The lost generation
Gary Day on the plight of young people in Britain today, protecting the consumer and finding love
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Film review: Hereafter
Duncan Wu stares longingly towards the emergency exit during Clint Eastwood's supernatural stinker