Harvard retains top spot in US rankings
Harvard University has topped its second university ranking in a week, taking the top spot in a national ranking of US universities in addition to its pole position in Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s...
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Private provider answers universities minister’s call
Kaplan, the for-profit higher education provider, is to offer tuition for external University of London degrees in a direct echo of a model for widening participation suggested by universities and...
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Dutch university aims to lure British students who lose out on UK places
A university in the Netherlands is hoping to attract some of the thousands of British students that may fail to gain a place after the A-level results are announced this week.Maastricht University is...
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Library investment benefits bottom line, survey states
Researchers believe they have found a correlation between investment in university library collections and levels of grant income. A 16-month study, led by Carol Tenopir, director of the Center for...
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US universities still the best, Chinese league table suggests
The US has retained its dominance in the annual world university ranking compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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Great escapes
Breaking out of the academy may seem daunting, but scholars' skills transfer to many other jobs. Matthew Reisz talks to four who made it to the other side. But then there is the final move out of the...
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Poetics of fact
Literary journalism and the best book reviews both value the subjective but tie it to hard facts. Susan Greenberg describes how truth can be as creative as fiction, while Christopher Phelps offers 10...
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So clichéd
Mary Evans laments the growing use of 'university-speak' in the academy - otherwise known as a part of the 'knowledge economy'
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How it Ends: From You to the Universe
The fate of humans and that of the entire Universe is unknowable but intriguing, finds Simon Mitton
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Moral Combat: A History of World War II
Between 1939 and 1941, nearly 3 million Jews were butchered not in concentration camps but in cold blood, at massacres such as the infamous Babi Yar, where visitors were even invited to watch the...
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh: A Biography
Another book on Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928), the Glasgow-born architect, painter and designer, may seem superfluous, but this new substantial volume, graced with superb colour plates by...
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Published this Week
(?) = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- Picasso and Apollinaire: The Persistence of MemoryBy Peter Read, professor of French, University of Kent. University of California Press, £24.95. ISBN...
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Book of the week: The Wind from the East
Beneath the political theory, the future: Tim Unwin asks whether it is still too soon to tell what May '68 meant
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When Doctors Kill - Who, Why and How
Lloyd Bradley finds this eclectic trawl through the profession's alleged killers a lot to stomach
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A Short History of Celebrity
While Leo Braudy's history of fame, The Frenzy of Renown, began in antiquity with specific reference to the self-publicising strategies of Alexander the Great, Fred Inglis, in A Short History of...