We don't lack skill -just political will
The UK could have contained or even prevented disasters such as the BSE crisis if policy-makers had not dismissed expert scientific advice, Hugh Pennington argues. There is a paradox. The British...
The UK could have contained or even prevented disasters such as the BSE crisis if policy-makers had not dismissed expert scientific advice, Hugh Pennington argues. There is a paradox. The British...
The UK could have contained or even prevented disasters such as the BSE crisis if policy-makers had not dismissed expert scientific advice, Hugh Pennington argues. There is a paradox. The British...
Critics have called it a 'McUniversity', but Phoenix University, founded by John Sperling (right) could be the most significant provider of mass-education in the world. Stephen Phillips reports....
Educating foreign students brings many benefits. Denis MacShane says we must strive to attract more of them. Just before Christmas the Bulgarian Socialist Party elected a new president. Sergei...
On the 400th and 50th anniversaries of their deaths, we pit England's virgin queen against the USSR's father and find more than a shared love of dancing. Christopher Haigh shows how Elizabeth...
The Game of Life
Classical Art
Forget the low pay of its academics, economics is in trouble because it is failing to shed light on everyday dilemmas, argues Alan Shipman. Economics can explain the demise of wheelwrights, weavers...
He's spent 25 years on the battlefield, but the closest that historian Brigadier Richard Holmes has ever come to live action is on TV, says Adrian Mourby. Richard Holmes arrives at his club in St...
Stephen Wolfram had such confidence in his 'new intellectual structure' that he decided to sidestep peer review and publish A New Kind of Science himself. But while the book has proved a hit with the...
The 19th-century courtesan Harriette Wilson revised her memoirs depending on which of her aristocratic lovers paid for her discretion. That flexibility with the truth presented her biographer,...
The Fall of France - Verdict on Vichy - Marianne in Chains
It's high time Europe pulled its socks up when it comes to management training, insists John Quelch. The MBA has become the educational standard for United States business. This has not yet happened...
The New Cambridge Medieval History
Tourists and scientists alike are fascinated by the 5,300-year-old preserved remains of an 'iceman' who may well have been killed. Paul Bompard reports A5,300-year-old mummy is fast becoming the Che...