The next government spending review and general election could bring changes for universities that would make recent reforms look like “marginal tinkering”, the new head of a mission group has warned.
Polly Jones is fascinated by a remarkable romance that endured a brutal, brutalising confinement
W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman's classic 1930 interpretation of history, 1066 and All That, concludes by saying that after the Great War "America became Top Nation and history came to a full stop"....
Seventeen years after Colin Firth's Mr Darcy bewitched women across the world with the costume-drama equivalent of a wet T-shirt contest, Austen mania shows no sign of letting up. Jane Austen's face...
Too many mental-health professionals are blind to context, believes Steven Schwartz
One of the great unknowns of the modern world is Chinese public opinion. In the quite recent past, government officials and various interested parties abroad could airily declare that all Chinese...
Eating is not only a complex physiological process; it is a complex cognitive process, too. It begins with chewing, which is controlled by what is called the "central pattern generator" in the...
Comprehensive app tackles Shakespeare's strange tools for seduction. Matthew Reisz reports
Bath conference considers 'dying in the digital age'. Matthew Reisz offers his condolences
United StatesEnrolling bonus still out of boundsThe US Court of Appeals has upheld a federal rule barring for-profit institutions from paying recruiters bonuses linked to the number of students they...
Libya plans campus construction and closer UK links as preparation for greater university autonomy, minister tells David Matthews
Research is a global effort, so all must sign the White House petition for open access, argues Cameron Neylon
Aldwyn Cooper, head of Regent's College, explains why he has no plans to turn a profit if the institution gets degree-awarding powers
Open-access publishingWhite House petition hits targetA petition asking the Obama administration to implement an open-access mandate for all publicly funded research has reached the required number...
Elite to put a price on their greatness, rather than having it thrust upon them, writes Elizabeth Gibney