Psychoanalyst Erik Erikson's work on psychohistory began in 1939, with the redrafting of an essay on the rise of Adolf Hitler. For Erikson, a Danish-German-American-Jewish-Protestant-agnostic yet...
When it comes to education, the homeless need all the help they can get, writes Carolyn Hayman. If entry to higher education took the form of a race, we would see students from private sector schools...
More work is required to make lifelong learning available for life, argues Brian Groombridge. Last month, when the government refuelled controversy over state-school students and elite universities,...
When it comes to misconduct in research, can science ever be self-policing or does the sector need to rethink its strategy? Nicholas Steneck questions. During the second world war and continuing...
Exploration of oil may have peaked in the 20th century, but petroleum geologists are still needed for environmental research and to predict the effects of global warming. Many United States oil-belt...
The secrets of homing pigeons are set to be revealed after the creation of an ultra-lightweight flight recorder that uses satellite tracking to plot each bird's exact course. The matchbox-sized...
The mass murderers of the Nazi regime were ideologically motivated Germans who were inured to their crimes by a spiral of political violence, according to the first systematic analysis of the chief...
David Baume advises on how to inject a bit of soul into the bare facts that sketch a career. It takes years, even decades, to build a good research career, but it is a record of achievement that is...
The essence of the University of Wisconsin system is that institutions, even prestigious, research-intensive ones, have more to gain than to lose by, in effect, pooling their sovereignty and...
British statistician Norma Reid has swept aside local contenders to win selection as head of South Africa's largest university, the University of the Wi****ersrand. Professor Reid, also known as Lady...
Peers have called on the government to provide funds to avert the potential threat of asteroids and other space debris colliding with the Earth. Earlier this month, the government announced a package...
Fast-track medical students on a flagship government scheme are set to lose thousands of pounds in National Health Service bursaries following a ruling that they will be means-tested on their parents...
Crisis highlights 'need for science' The countrywide foot-and-mouth crisis illustrates the importance of science in everyday life, the president of the British Association for the Advancement of...
Nigeria confronts university decay Nigeria’s federal government has set up a committee on university autonomy and related matters to tackle the decay in the country's universities.  ...
Financial Times Researchers at University College London surveyed 600 employees of the Property Services Agency, which was privatised in the mid-1990s, and found that privatisation is bad for your...