In stark stylistic contrast to almost any work of philosophy you care to name, Thus Spoke Zarathustra dances from the pages with a florid exuberance that can border on the embarrassing. Its scope, as...
John Gray says he is no despairing grump, just trying to help us by injecting realism into political thinking. To that end, he tells Matthew Reisz, his essays do not skirt the nasty, shabby sides of...
ART AND DESIGN- Monument Wars: Washington, DC, the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial LandscapeBy Kirk Savage, associate professor and chair of the department of art and...
The birthplace of Bob Dylan is being turned into something of a tourist Mecca thanks to research by a Manchester Metropolitan University academic. David Leaver, senior lecturer in the business school...
A professor has leapt to the defence of smelly people everywhere. Robert McKeever, head of London Metropolitan University's department of law, governance and international relations, was reacting to...
Academics from Wales and Tanzania are to be united under a new twinning agreement. Bangor University is the first UK institution to lead a pairing under the University Twinning and Networking Scheme...
Britain's top wheelchair tennis player has put down his racket and picked up a pen, enrolling for a degree in sports studies and psychology at the University of Stirling. Gordon Reid arrived on...
A group of academics is calling on the University of Southampton's new vice-chancellor to transform the institution into the country's first "transition" university. The transition movement aims to...
Four hundred years of intimate English secrets are being revealed thanks to a professor of history. Amanda Vickery, from the department of history at Royal Holloway, University of London, has...
A new centre is to bring together experts on the health of pregnant women and their babies. Poor maternal, reproductive and child health are major contributors to ill-health worldwide, leading to...
The "human side" of the medical profession is to be explored at the University of Aberdeen. It has launched courses based on the premise that there is more to caring for the human body and mind than...
Researchers will examine how older people deal with technology in their everyday lives. The Open University is part of a European team that has been awarded funding for the Older People and...
Research degree-awarding powers have been handed to Liverpool Hope University. Previously its research degrees had been awarded through the University of Liverpool. In a recommendation to the Privy...
A group of leading international experts on landmines will work with Leeds Metropolitan University to further the study of post-conflict reconstruction. The Mines Advisory Group, which was a co-...
Academics in the South West are leading a region-wide project that aims to cut sickness absence by 25 per cent by improving wellbeing at work. The project will unite businesses, including Royal Mail...