Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Super-scholar
Scholarly superheroes and campus life often feature in comics, but do they capture the real-life dramas of academia?
Scholarly superheroes and campus life often feature in comics, but do they capture the real-life dramas of academia?
Does bitchiness serve any useful scholarly purpose?
Will Brooker on a science fiction blockbuster that, despite the clichés, has much to say about inequality and oppression
Woolwich murder reignites debate over university extremism. Hanna Ibraheem reports
Woolwich murder reignites debate over university radicalisation
In his review of David A. Weintraub's book How Old is the Universe? ("13.7 billion years - final answer?" 10 February), Shobhit Mahajan says the author takes seriously "Stephen Hawking's wry comment...
Toby Miller did not take a straight path into academia - far from it, having been, among other things, a DJ, a ditch digger, a speech-writer, a bureaucrat, a security guard and a merchant banker. He...
Miriam David’s reflections on her career as a scholar and feminist inspired her to interview a range of female academics about their paths to the getting of wisdom - and the pivotal role feminism has...
Animated films aren’t just for children, argues James Clarke. They’re lyrical metaphors for the richness of human existence
Howard Davies on an industrial strategy that could help the Third World catch up with the West
It is a disturbing truth, as Jonathan Clark has pointed out in Revolution and Rebellion: State and Society in England in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1986), that academics promoting a...
The REF's conflation of intellectual quality and geographical scale makes little sense and may have negative consequences for UK research, argues Alastair Bonnett
Academia must follow the Church’s lead in debating ethics, says Malcolm Gillies
Matthew Reisz talks to the movers and shakers of the past 40 years who made Times Higher Education what it is today
Has insanity increased or is the concept all in the mind? David Healy welcomes an insightful debate