On the northern edge of the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a statue of a Confederate soldier stands sentry, rifle at the ready. Given to the university in 1913 by the...
To keep prices down, loans will be extended to private-sector students and caps on places will be loosened, but minister wants more time to prepare White Paper
Research “impact” will count for less than the proposed 25 per cent in the research excellence framework, funding chiefs are expected to confirm next week.
Lucy Wooding praises a compelling study of the evolving significance of the land's sacred features
Mary Laven enjoys an original account of alleged cloistered crime and use of the 'diabolical arts'
The noble gases are the silent onlookers of the chemical world. Atoms of helium, neon, argon, krypton and radon have electrons, in the negatively charged cloud smeared around their nuclei, in just...
Jacques Rancière is increasingly highly thought of by anglophone literary critics and theorists. He has a reputation as a radical thinker, both intellectually and politically: he was a collaborator...
James Delbourgo admires an enlightened woman of science who became a fixture of the Grand Tour
Do Llamas Fall in Love? has almost nothing to do with llamas, but plenty to do with love, especially that love of wisdom that is philosophy. This smart and funny jaunt through philosophy's core...
Back in the mid-19th century, the Prussian nationalist historian Heinrich von Treitschke asserted that "it is men who make history". A century later, Fernand Braudel, the Annales School historian,...
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Any bloody lie will do
University of HullAlison YarringtonAlison Yarrington has been appointed dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Hull. Professor Yarrington, an expert in sculpture, took a...
'Share' project diarists divulge how they are losing their weekends to work. Rebecca Attwood reports
USAF learns from philosopher's understanding of unintended consequences. Matthew Reisz writes
It is not the biggest university in the UK - indeed, it is not even the biggest in Edinburgh - but on the global stage, Heriot-Watt University already punches above its weight.It has unveiled plans...