Drunken Oxbridge students - with punts, floppy white ties, bottles of Bolly and paparazzi - have done more over the years to put ordinary decent sixth-formers (and their families) off the two...
There is one thing, and probably only one, on which all higher education's representative groups can agree: the government should provide more money. So it should. The questions are how much more,...
Characterising relations between the Middle East and the West as a clash of civilisations plays into the hands of fundamentalists, argues Thomas Meyer. Since the September 11 attacks on the United...
Forty years ago E. H. Carr published What is History . Richard J. Evans considers the influence this former journalist had on historical thought and how he might view history in the making today This...
'Who are academics and what is their role?' Palgrave prize-winner Mike Finn looks at the once 'remote and ineffectual don' and finds that, although academia has not lost its idealism, communicating...
In a country that cannot afford drug therapies for HIV-Aids, a £500-a-year hospice scheme is helping South African families prepare for death. Karen MacGregor reports. It is as bad as it gets. Three...
Belfast unveils £150m revamp appeal Queen’s University Belfast has launched a £150 million fundraising campaign. It plans a wide range of building projects from an 1,800-place student...
British youth 'most ignorant' about EU Eurobarometer, the European Commission's polling arm, found that Britons aged 15-24 are more ignorant about, and have lower expectations of, the European Union...
Student dies in Colombian campus demo A Colombian medical student died during a violent march by hooded demonstrators at the Universidad Nacional in Bogotá. Carlos Geovanny Blanco Leguízano was...
'Blame inequality, not bin Laden', says novelist Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes told students and professors at the Universdad de Buenos Aires that injustice and social inequality, and not Osama bin...
Mankind's 'first tools' unearthed A tool kit carved from bone 70,000 years ago provides the strongest evidence yet that Africa was the birthplace of complex technology. Christopher Henshilwood of the...
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