Patrick Masterson says the EUI is key to overcoming problems in Europe and the wider world. It would be hard to think of two places further apart - in the popular imagination at least - than Florence...
Soldiers, as the cliche goes, are forever fighting the last war; so are analysts, commentators and contemporary historians. The opinions of such oracles, be they disgusted air vice-marshals (retired...
A leisure technology levy could help cut financial barriers to access, says Gordon Marsden. "Wider and wider still" rightly remains the thrust of this government's policy for higher education. But to...
The NHS University is no threat to institutions - it can work only in partnership, argues Chris Ham. In a people business such as healthcare, the quality of service offered to patients depends first...
Q Students can use computers to assess essays by peers before they submit their own work. Isn't that plagiarism? A Of course it is. The idea that students might learn anything, especially the skills...
Making a group from a collection of people is no easy task. Paul Kleiman explains how to ensure that the experience does not turn into a health hazard. While Karl Marx believed in the power of the...
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Handbook of Sports Studies
The Oxford Companion to Jazz
Tim Garden finds an attack on UK policy in Bosnia too simplistic. As Britain takes the diplomatic lead in trying to sort out conflict and bad governance in Afghanistan, it is a salutary exercise to...
The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights
The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Social Work
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel written on the brink of the second world war: "The idea really came to me the day I got my new...
Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey
Adventures on the Wheels of Steel