The vice-chancellor of Aberystwyth University is to step down at the end of the 2010-11 academic year.Noel Lloyd, who has held the post since 2004, announced his intention to retire at a meeting of...
Attracting top international students is part of Israel’s renewed commitment to cooperation and excellence, explains Joseph Klafter
Like the parrot in the Monty Python sketch, the author is no more. Literary texts, we are assured, come into being as a patchwork of cultural fragments, quotations and half-quotations and...
David Revill finds much of value in an examination of one of the best-misunderstood works of our time
Given that today the majority of British women (and men) support feminist demands such as equal access to higher education, the right to contraception, abortion on demand and equal pay, what is it...
How could jihadi violence break out in a country seen as the historical heartland of Islam and ruled by a state that boasts about its many Islamic credentials? Here, Thomas Hegghammer unpacks the...
ARTS AND DESIGNFado and the Place of Longing: Loss, Memory and the CityBy Richard Elliott, teacher, International Centre for Music Studies, Newcastle University. Ashgate, £55.00. ISBN...
Richard Crisp is inspired by this journey into 'stereotype threat' and the power we have to rise above its constraints
Katrina Honeyman on a revealing study of the stories of young workers in industrialising Britain
Human trafficking, along with other forms of criminal and institutionalised exploitation of politically and economically disadvantaged people, is among the most pressing and horrific problems of our...
I first read Billion Year Spree by mistake. It was the mid-1970s, and I was working a shift at my local public library. The pay was low, but the company was good and I managed to get first pick of...
Ben McConville appreciates a thought-provoking insight into journalese and those who speak it
Where will radicalism go now that traditional party politics is smeared with corruption? I predict a riot. Well, perhaps not - maybe a nice cup of tea and a copy of The Guardian, for all us armchair...
Teachers from the Caribbean have visited a UK university as part of a scheme designed to improve maths and science standards in West Indian schools. The University of Reading is working with the...
Almost 100 junior school children "graduated" from a university following an event to enrich links between the local community and higher education. The ceremony, held by the University of Portsmouth...