When the mathematician Claude E. Shannon published his classic paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" in the Bell System Technical Journal in 1948, he affected a variety of different...
The most conspicuous trademark of New Historicism is its use of anecdote. In their attempts to foreground the relativity of canonicity, the New Historicists would not begin their analysis of Othello...
The Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings for 2009 will be published here at 00.01 on Thursday 8 October
The 2008 Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings have provoked a response worldwide, as power-shifts among the top 200 institutions are analysed.
What must surely be the longest presidential campaign in US history is taking place in an unlimited media environment, yet not since the 1920s has academic opinion so despaired of the educative value...
Several leading national newspapers were quick to pick up on the news that our current Head of Computation, Professor Norbert Norbert, has designed a "university management computer" which is...
When it comes to grants, Tim Birkhead knows just how Kevin the Teenager feels
In performing magic, academic and author Dale Salwak found a demanding calling that rewarded him with joy and self-discovery
Always controversial, the World University Rankings are nevertheless an invaluable quality-marker for the sector
Brian Bercusson, one of the world's leading authorities on European labour law, has died.Although he was born in Montreal in 1947 and initially educated in Canada and Israel, Professor Bercusson...
In your comprehensive analysis of the Bologna Process you state "the one-year masters offered by UK universities could be seen as minimalist, even lazy" ("The long and the short of it", 2 October)....
No discussion of the masters degree is complete without taking note of another peculiarity of English - though less so Scottish - education, namely the specialised sixth form, which transfers to...
I am disappointed that no challenge was presented to the ignorant views of the blogger and Bruce Charlton who claim that feminism is "bullshit" and a "stupid academic fad" ("US blogger plots graph to...
Bruce Charlton, a reader in evolutionary psychiatry, who for some reason is quick to point out that he has an MA in English literature, informs us that in the past "at some point, the humanities...
It is ironic that your US blogger should claim that Marxism is dead, and that it had very little basis as an economic theory, at the very time that capitalist economists and commentators are widely...