While the Sorbonne was at the epicentre of the 1968 protests, the shock waves were felt far beyond France, with students occupying Peking and UC Berkeley at the same time. A group of academics...
A study seeks to fill the lacuna in coverage of a key Crusades conflict, says Thomas Asbridge
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Politicians and social media warriors could learn a lesson from the ‘ivory towers’ they are so quick to deride: plurality and exchange of ideas are good things
I read with interest your feature on the ever-increasing number of women in higher education worldwide (“Why is Martha doing better than Arthur?”, 10 May), but it missed an important point. At least...
In his letter “End ideologues’ reign over imperial history” (3 May), Zareer Masani accuses us of “character assassination”. To use his words, we take strong exception to this unsubstantiated...
In their book How Democracies Die: What History Tells Us about Our Future (Books, 8 March), Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt offer some possibly useful critical analysis, but I am shocked by their...
UK higher education is undergoing significant change, and as technology is central to most of it, institutions must be cognisant of the threat and impact of growing cyberattacks on universities in...
Confirmation removes one of major barriers to country’s continued participation in framework programmes
UK universities have criticised proposals for discipline-level assessment in the teaching excellence framework
New £25 million fellowships launched by the African Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society