Darwin was a lucky tourist. He travelled widely for five years in the 1830s on board HMS Beagle, gathering data and specimens that enabled him to make spectacular scientific breakthroughs. He did not...
Sir Drummond Bone warms to a sensitive account of the pressures incurred in leading a university
For a long while now the idea that modernity comes into being partly by casting off the medieval - leaving behind childish and spiritual things, as it were - has been readily accepted as an...
Between the end of the wars against Napoleon in 1815 and the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, some 50 million Europeans left for the New World. Almost two-fifths of these (more than 18...
CanadaOnline institution goes offlineOne of the biggest names in private higher education is shutting its Canadian online university just two years after it began operations. The Apollo Group, the...
After British higher education's autumn of discontent, neither the coalition government nor the sky has fallen. Yet the UK academy has changed fundamentally in the wake of confirmed spending cuts....
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Do blame yourself
City University of New YorkCarole M. Berotte JosephAn alumnus of the City University of New York is returning to her alma mater to become president of Bronx Community College. Carole M. Berotte...
Top Nations in Plant and Animal SciencesData provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, January 2000-August 2010 Country Papers CitationsImpact1 England30,347 390,092 12.852...
Academy unites in castigating coalition plans to tighten entry requirements. Hannah Fearn reports
Manifesto project strives to defend subject and clarify its aims and impact. Matthew Reisz writes
There is a "vast" amount of litigation concerning academic freedom in the US, while in the UK there is "virtually none".Yet in the latter, according to Eric Barendt, emeritus professor of media law...
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCHHealth Technology Assessment Programme• Award winner: Tjeerd van Staa• Institution: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency• Value: £314,...
John Hearn and Alan Robson urge universities to refocus on the reality of individual missions, not rankings' absurd lists
Politically driven plans to reduce access to UK higher education will seriously harm a £5bn-a-year success story, says Nicola Dandridge