The US higher education system is blighted by a “very long tail of really bad institutions that are taking people’s money for degrees that don’t give any advantage at all to students”, according to...
London Metropolitan University has announced plans to axe about 400 courses, cutting the number it offers by two-thirds – from 557 to roughly 160.The reduction forms part of a radical shake-up of the...
Imperial College London and King’s College London have announced that they are to become partners in the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation.
A Chinese student with a passion for volunteering and London life has been named the British Council’s international student of the year.
The simple life of the hermit was a surprisingly complex business, Helen Castor discovers
The three books of Jacques Derrida's annus mirabilis, 1967 - L'Écriture et la difference, La voix et le phénomène and De la grammatologie - along with much of his work of the following decade, depend...
It is said that there are only seven different plots available to the storyteller, and people coping with crises is the basis for several (if not all) of these. The dramatic storytelling that forms a...
Steve Yearley is intrigued by a vision of an Arctic circle of nations benefiting from climate change
A few pages into this book and an old Punch cartoon came to mind: two (white) yokels leaning on a gate, watching another (white) male. The caption? Something along the lines of: "'Ere's a stranger -'...
Arch-conservatives such as Lewis Namier and A.L. Rowse could never understand why other historians wasted their time on the patently obvious losers of history and the "lunatic fringe", rather than...
A historical narrative about Turkey is impressive but lacks a framework, warns M. Şükrü Hanioğlu
Has the long, uneven crawl towards liberty that began with the Magna Carta come to an end? Much post-9/11 "everything has changed" writing claims that it has. This results either from the dirty hands...
The study of human origins has, apparently, a big problem. A massive, unspoken problem, lurking like a veritable herd of elephants in the room. Or to use a metaphor more appropriate to this book, a...
Laurence Coupe is captivated by a celebration of the nature and culture of East Anglia's coastline
Despite government inducements, Turkish postgraduates who study abroad are reluctant to join a 'toxic' system resistant to reform. Hannah Fearn writes