Unlimited wealth and refined taste transformed Mantua - a provincial town between three lakes, halfway from Venice to Milan - into one of the artistic and cultural centres of Europe. The Gonzagas, a...
Power, Tom Palaima learns, was easily gained but damned hard to keep
Teenagers: A Natural History by David Bainbridge, university clinical veterinary anatomist, University of Cambridge. Portobello Books, £13.99, ISBN 97818461212"The selling point is that David...
ART AND DESIGNArchitecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro.By Robert Kirkbride, director of studio 'patafisico and associate professor, Parsons The New School for...
A relative in his early thirties about to finish an economics degree has told me that cheating at universities is rampant.Plagiarism is commonplace and many students buy essays and submit them as...
Our Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, has given an enthusiastic welcome to the suggestion from researchers at the University of California, San Diego that academics should be given a...
A market-dominated culture fails to sustain social mobility, writes Alan Ryan
London Met has taken on the difficult job of widening access - it deserves support and backing in this tumultuous climate
Sally Ledger, a leading authority on Victorian culture and women's writing, has died.
Jocelyn Prudence (Letters, 22 January) urges us to "examine the facts". I have worked at the University of Leeds for nearly 35 years and during that time, the job of raising a family has proved quite...
Sally Hunt's analysis of the salary of the vice-chancellor of the University of Southampton is confused and incomplete (Letters, 29 January). She seeks to compare a potential future increase in pay...
I don't think Niall Hayes' article on plagiarism is particularly helpful ("A cheat, moi? That's unfair", 29 January). Obviously there is more to a plagiarism "offence" than a simple similarity count...
Brenda Gourley's timing was unfortunate (Letters, 29 January). On the day her letter appeared, the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills issued a Statistical First Release for 2007-08,...
Last week's Times Higher Education confirms something I've been noticing for years. The illustrations of the typical academic, whether photos or cartoons, tend to assume he is male.This seems to be...
Les Ebdon argues that "Older isn't always wiser" (29 January). That may be appropriate in some disciplines, but there are some striking exceptions, especially in biology and with holistic rather than...