Telling tales from the killing fields
Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of all the Poor Guatemalans - Crossing Borders - Voices from Exile
Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of all the Poor Guatemalans - Crossing Borders - Voices from Exile
Following up on local talk, Alan G. Robinson discovered a lost city that may transform our view of a great ancient civilisation. Andrew Robinson reports The dream of any archaeologist must be to...
DOZENS of France's top researchers have banded together to fight a law forcing them to retire at the age of 65 instead of 68. About 100 researchers in the top "class one" and "exceptional class"...
Academics from around the Mediterranean have been investigating how to build closer relations between European universities and their neighbours to the South and East. The Civil Forum, which was held...
University of Birmingham (continued) Research contracts Dr D. Weaver, Pounds 40,455 from Magnox Electric (radiological site contamination and characterisation); Dr M. McDonagh, Pounds 59,007 from...
Callaghan
Student expeditions - adventure holidays for wannabe Livingstones? No, says Daniel Start, leader of the Cambridge group held hostage in West Papua. University expeditions are part of the...
The Bangkok gathering of heads of Asian and European governments earlier this month was unusual. It took one regional grouping, the Association of Southeast Asian States (ASEAN), to bring another,...
English as a Global Language
French intellectuals have regained a place on their country's political map. Stella Hughes explores their growing role Without leaving the Latin Quarter and its academic bookshops, university...
Despite his years of exile, years of eternal opposition promises and everlasting government cuts, one thing has remained a constantin Ged Martin's academic life... The scene is the staff common room...
Fay Haussman on a project aimed at reconciling man and the environment of the Brazilian rainforest. Marina Silva, the new federal senator for Acre, Brazil's westernmost Amazonian state, recently went...
As Valentine Cunningham stands shivering in the harsh winds blowing through academia, what exactly fires his resolve to stick to his calling? When thousands of higher education teachers take to the...
Source: Alamy The young universities celebrated in the 100 Under 50 are bullish: they have no fear of the future or of older rivals, says Phil Baty. When Times Higher Education conceived the 100...
A royal commission has just concluded that we do not know much about the ground beneath our feet. Kam Patel unearths some disturbing facts about soil, and three experts explain why its degradation...