Former prime minister Tony Blair has called for UK higher education to be seen as “a major export” – but warned that universities risk being “left behind” if they do not adjust to change, including...
A committee of senior Harvard academics has urged the university’s staff to publish in open access journals amid concern that the cost of journal subscriptions is becoming “untenable”.
The government has announced that uncapped recruitment of the highest-achieving students at A-level will be extended to the ABB threshold in 2013-14, while a further 5,000 places will be allocated to...
The Million+ group of post-1992 universities has appointed Patrick McGhee, the vice-chancellor of the University of East London, as its new chair.
Maleiha Malik applauds a road map that seeks to lead the West away from intolerance of Muslims
Willy Maley is tickled by an unexpected, less puritanical reading of post-Reformation culture
Love Online, first published in French as Sex @mour, seeks to document people's experiences, post-millennium, with respect to the rise of internet-mediated dating. Sociologist Jean-Claude Kaufmann...
Next year will mark the 30th anniversary of the publication of Jack Zipes' Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, a milestone in fairy tale studies that challenged a century of scholarship on the...
David Gewanter applauds a literary - and scientific - exploration of the Bard's poetic longevity
Computers have not eclipsed manual board war gaming. This is the strong message delivered in Philip Sabin's Simulating War. This book is about war gaming, and if you are expecting a traditional...
Leon Trotsky remains a compelling and controversial figure for historians, with two major biographies since 2009. Bertrand Patenaude's Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky is a...
Jon Turney on one scientist's successful efforts to resist the relentless assaults of the denialists
"Man, when he enters the world, is naturally led to inquire who he is, whence he comes; whither he is going; for what purpose he is created..." So wrote Carl Gustav Linnaeus in 1788 and it is very...
In mathematics, numbers such as 0, ±1, ±2, ±3 are called integers, and ratios of two integers such as 1/3 and -2012/2011 are called rational numbers. Number theory is a branch of mathematics, and...
Cengage's plans to digitise the 19th century could open up a whole new world, finds Matthew Reisz