In June 2008, we reported on the rights and obligations of employers in relation to Army reservists. However, this is just one area in which a right to time off from work may arise. This article...
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Britain's one-year masters is proving a sticking point in the Bologna Process, but the equivalence issue is raising difficult questions about length of study for other degrees, too. Hannah Fearn...
Forget those scrawled annotations: Peter Barry believes that students learn far more about how to craft an essay from a few minutes of face-to-face dialogue
John Gilbey was on first-name terms with Nobel laureates and all the other 'campers' at Science Foo, a three-day intellectual free-for-all that left him exhausted but elated
Look out, America - The Bologna Process is set to make the UK and Europe into a higher education superpower
Einstein was no saint, but nor was he a womanising, avaricious bumbler, says Graham Farmelo
A homosexual is not a homosexual is not a homosexual: the idea of a homosexual - once useful - is now profoundly unhelpful. The study of lesbian and gay lives in all their richness and pluralities...
1 Road to Success: A Career Manual by Alexander R. Margulis Academic Press, £18.99 ISBN 97801237058782 Economics: A Very Short Introduction by Partha Dasgupta Oxford University Press, £6.99 ISBN...
Philip Kemp enjoys a serious exploration of the cinematic epic
Admirals: The Naval Commanders who Made Britain Great by Andrew Lambert, Laughton professor of naval history, King's College London. Faber and Faber, £20.00, ISBN 9780571231560"Nelson stands far...
GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIESUrban Regeneration in the UK: Theory and PracticeBy Phil Jones, lecturer in human geography, University of Birmingham, and James Evans, lecturer in geography,...
What to do when your higher education system receives poor ratings in the two international league tables of note, the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings and that of Shanghai Jiao...
The great evolution versus intelligent design debate surfaced on our campus last week following the publication of the vice-chancellor's letter to new students. In his letter, the v-c repeatedly...
Sally Feldman has spotted a new breed of troublemaker appearing on campus