A university in the Netherlands is hoping to attract some of the thousands of British students that may fail to gain a place after the A-level results are announced this week.Maastricht University is...
Researchers believe they have found a correlation between investment in university library collections and levels of grant income. A 16-month study, led by Carol Tenopir, director of the Center for...
The US has retained its dominance in the annual world university ranking compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
The fate of humans and that of the entire Universe is unknowable but intriguing, finds Simon Mitton
Between 1939 and 1941, nearly 3 million Jews were butchered not in concentration camps but in cold blood, at massacres such as the infamous Babi Yar, where visitors were even invited to watch the...
Another book on Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928), the Glasgow-born architect, painter and designer, may seem superfluous, but this new substantial volume, graced with superb colour plates by...
(?) = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- Picasso and Apollinaire: The Persistence of MemoryBy Peter Read, professor of French, University of Kent. University of California Press, £24.95. ISBN...
Beneath the political theory, the future: Tim Unwin asks whether it is still too soon to tell what May '68 meant
Lloyd Bradley finds this eclectic trawl through the profession's alleged killers a lot to stomach
While Leo Braudy's history of fame, The Frenzy of Renown, began in antiquity with specific reference to the self-publicising strategies of Alexander the Great, Fred Inglis, in A Short History of...
I was a postgraduate when I read V.A.C. Gatrell's utterly gritty - and illustrated! - account of public hangings as a social and political ritual enacted over and over under England's "bloody code"....
Robert Appelbaum savours a small remembrance of gateaux past and is left hungry for more
In African American Writers and Classical Tradition, William Cook and James Tatum, professors emeriti of English and African American studies and of Classics, respectively, analyse the influence of...
In a recent interview for Times Higher Education, the world's foremost Shakespearean, Stanley Wells, distances himself from the literary theorists: "I ... see myself as a sort of populariser. I have...
An ancient creature of the deep has been revealed by scientists at Imperial College London. They have developed a 3D model of the only known fossilised specimen of a creature, called Drakozoon, which...