Sex meets gore in hardcore study
Conference gets to grips with extreme adaptations and slash fiction. Matthew Reisz takes a peek

Conference gets to grips with extreme adaptations and slash fiction. Matthew Reisz takes a peek
StockholmNasa - A Human AdventureThe Tekniska Museet (Sweden's National Museum of Science and Technology), founded in 1936, offers "an exciting journey from the infancy of industry to grand visions...

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"Not our vice-chancellor." That was the forthright response of Ted Odgers to the assertion by Tim Wilson, the outgoing vice-chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire, that "a vice-chancellor's...
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He may be known as "Two Brains", but universities minister David Willetts has always relied on four eyes - until now. Mr Willetts has shed his spectacles thanks to laser eye surgery and on 20 January...
With the new academic year in Australia set to start in a few weeks, I am savouring a time of quiet contemplation before the madness begins. Naturally, I think about fresh strategies for teaching...

A tumultuous exhibition places debates about sculpture's position and possibilities in sharp relief, finds Alex Danchev

David Bradby was an "incredibly ethical" scholar with a "dry wit" who spent his academic career working to promote the study of non-English theatre.He was born on February 1942 and studied modern...

Demand-led funding and growing state regulation may leave the Australian system with the worst of all worlds, says Steven Schwartz
The University and College Union's national executive committee (NEC) recently confirmed that it is about to conduct five separate ballots in higher and further education institutions over jobs,...