I have a slight obsession with getting cold and wet, for no particularly good reason, and have often been encouraged to wonder why by the less masochistic members of my family. This usually occurs...
When it comes to Shakespeare, we're all amateurs. Jacques Derrida wished to live 200 years to become a Shakespeare expert. Michael Dobson hasn't lived that long, but with four centuries of...
Clive Bloom celebrates a bravura account of the power of flowers and the politics of a fertile earth
In an important new book that richly analyses the causes, course and consequences of the First World War, Jeremy Black asks why it remains the "most misunderstood major conflict in history". He draws...
"In the early morning of Friday 26 April 1816," David Ellis' book begins, "Lord Byron landed in Ostend." Everyone knows what comes next: according to John William Polidori, Byron "fell like a...
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Report highlights required changes to prospectus and online statements. David Matthews reports
Aimhigher boss calls for university commitment as programme nears end. Jack Grove reports
Universities must re-engage with society about their role in 21st-century Britain as the government's White Paper has failed to visualise the future of higher education, a vice-chancellor has said.
ChinaVicious circle of debtChinese universities racked up debts totalling about £25 billion between 1999 and 2010, according to a senior official. Liu Liyun, deputy director of the research institute...
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCILFellowship awards• Award winner: Stewart Field• Institution: Cardiff University• Value: £40,360Making sense of youth justice: a comparative study of Italy and...
Simon Marginson on an Australian seminar that considered the local implications of the 'English experiment' with humanities funding
Offa data raise fears that universities offering access bursaries will suffer, writes Simon Baker
The idea that universities are about to be plunged into crisis by the decision to open up one in four full-time undergraduate places to full competition is "daft", according to the head of the...
The European Research Council should be reorganised and given more autonomy to end the sense of a "ménage à trois" involving its governing and executive branches and the European Commission.That is...