Credit: Untitled (from The Brave Ones series)/Zwelethu Mthethwa/Jack Shainman GalleryFigures & Fictions: Contemporary South African PhotographyVictoria and Albert Museum, LondonPhotography has...
The two men in sole charge of our university maintenance, "Dave" and "Vince", have admitted that they are dealing with the university's pressing infrastructural crisis by "largely making things up as...
The peaceable bonobo, not the aggressive chimp, may offer a better model for human origins and the sector's development
Tim Birkhead finds a valuable lesson in the story of the bullfinch trainers
Enthusiastic response to UK-US 'ideas lab' may see photosynthesis research blossom. Paul Jump reports
David Willetts has supposedly transformed from true blue to scourge of the middle classes in recent months, and changes to student support arrangements unveiled on 14 April sparked renewed fury from...
Several factors have helped Kazakhstan grow rapidly in the two decades that it has been an independent country, among them abundant natural resources and proximity to large markets in Europe and Asia...
The Catalan artist lauded for his colour, language and playfulness was also, Alex Danchev writes, deeply if quietly concerned with the matter of liberty
Marshall Grossman was a renowned and award-winning Milton scholar who could make people "laugh hard and think harder".He studied for his first degree at the State University of New York, Binghamton,...
The concept of the 'killer-ape' offers a pessimistic reflection of humanity and its genesis, but the latest research shows that a primate species whose success is based on mutual aid and pleasure,...
A French conference debates how to cultivate leadership qualities in MBA students, without losing sight of what really matters in life. Matthew Reisz observes
David Cameron looks fit to give David Lammy a run for his money in terms of ignorant comments about Oxbridge admissions (The week in higher education, 14 April). Migrants everywhere want their...
The reaction of the Arts and Humanities Research Council to widespread concern within the academy at the role that the "Big Society" plays in its "Delivery Plan" causes us grave concern. The AHRC has...
We write to express our strong support for the views put forward by Donald Braben et al. regarding Research Councils UK's Pathways to Impact process ("Corrosive impact merits only dismissal", Letters...
The article "Clash of the centuries" (14 April) on the election of Trinity College Dublin's new provost expressed two problems with the process as I observed it: unreal romanticism and disconnection...