South Africa: tear gas and flight paths
Campus violence could halt the homeward flow of the internationally mobile researchers South Africa’s academy needs
Campus violence could halt the homeward flow of the internationally mobile researchers South Africa’s academy needs
From Donald Trump to Brexit, John Morgan considers the challenges of a new international political climate
Scholars and senior sector figures reveal their favourite titles – read for work, for pleasure or both – published this year
Routine work can open channels of creativity, inspiration and insight that theory cannot begin to offer, believes George Watson
Guiding the clever to wisdom’s shoresI was fascinated by the quote from Tony Blair in 1999 promoting 50 per cent entry in UK higher education: “In today’s world there is no such thing as too clever....
Those concerned for the future of computer science in the UK need have no fear, argue Yorick Wilks et al. The debate has been passionate and well informed, raging on online mailing lists and academic...
In the wake of the Stevens inquiry into Premiership probity, five football-loving academics tackle the state of play of the national game at professional and community levels Meat-and-potato pie or...
Cary Nelson's latest book considers the dark forces ranged against free speech in the academy. Only collective action can save higher education, the activist and AAUP president tells Zoë Corbyn
Monday Go to Manhattan. Not large famous Manhattan but small, unknown Manhattan in Kansas. It is the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the wind erosion research unit of the United States...
Monday What time is it? Here in Chicago it is 6.30pm but, in my post-flight consciousness, it is after midnight and therefore Tuesday. Whichever, it is dark. Dimly-lit downtown looms like a manmade...
Elaine Williams talks to Gillian Rose, the philosopher who has fused her scholarship, love affairs and experience of ovarian cancer into an extraordinary bestselling book. It takes an extraordinary...
Picasso's dazzling capacity for reinvention consumed many in its creative fire - not least the muses who ignited it. Henry Meyric Hughes writes. Pablo Picasso dominated the international artistic...
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