A first-person history of mental illness
Historian Barbara Taylor’s account of the asylum system is woven into a memoir of breakdown and recovery aided by a ‘safe haven’, analysis and friendship

Historian Barbara Taylor’s account of the asylum system is woven into a memoir of breakdown and recovery aided by a ‘safe haven’, analysis and friendship

Alistair Carmichael hits back at Michael Russell’s claims of xenophobia in Westminster

How does a tiny institution create such outsized impact?

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AustraliaTax measure ‘threatens’ fundingA body of leading Australian universities has criticised the government’s “kneejerk, short-sighted” attempt to recoup more than a billion dollars in research...

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We speak to the distinguished visiting professor of higher education at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

A pioneer of practical training for interpreters in Britain has died

EPSRCMeet the new chiefThe pro vice-chancellor for research and enterprise at the University of Southampton has been named the new chief executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research...

I know how frustrating “An FoI officer’s lot” (30 January) can be. But a freedom of information request to universities to find out how many FoI requests they had received is hardly demanding,...
Jack Grove’s excellent feature “Out of control” (5 December) rightly highlighted the role of Turkish students and scholars in the large anti-government demonstrations last year that centred on the...
I found the patronising tone of the review of my book What Is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon (Books, 23 January) very jarring. The book Robert Appelbaum fitfully evokes...
It is worth adding some historical context to Emma Rees’ discussion (“Kick up a fuss and reclaim your linguistic property”, 23 January) by casting a critical eye over the invention of tradition....
I applaud the efforts of Times Higher Education to take the first steps in reviewing general feelings among staff across the UK sector on a number of key topics. However, as THE has pointed out, the...