Recession can be good for education, making studying and teaching seem relatively attractive as the cold wind blows. The last recession drove substantial expansion in further and higher education,...
The government's idea for a University of the National Health Service is broadly a good one. It was promised in Labour's election campaign and looks set to happen. But details so far imply that, as...
Jack Miles tells Anthony Freeman how his take on the Bible casts God as a sinner who overcame a late-life crisis only by repenting in the form of Jesus. The Bible should carry a warning: it can...
How do you organise 603 groups - each with its own agenda, political orientation and organising style - into a coherent force that can blockade the centre of a major city, halt an international...
Anarchistic ideas date back to the ancient world: dissident writers from ancient Greece, Rome, China and India condemned authority and demanded a form of anarchy - a society without a ruler. Their...
The fall of the house of Marx and the end of the cold war have led to a decline in labour history that has affected social history in general because, as Patrick Joyce writes: "The basic repertoire...
How do you get a company to pick up the tab for a $40,000-a-year education in sun-kissed California? Stephen Phillips meets entrepreneurial teenagers Chris Barrett and Luke McCabe. Chris Barrett and...
British novelist wins literature Nobel Trinidad-born British writer V S Naipaul is the winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. The citation says that it was awarded "for having united...
Daily Telegraph A record number of students started at university this month, undeterred by the prospect of leaving with large debts, according to the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service....
Natfhe angered by consultation snub Lecturers' leaders have attacked vice-chancellors for excluding staff from plans for a higher education ombudsman. Lecturers’ union Natfhe has written to...
Record numbers studying at UK institutions More students than ever are studying at universities and colleges in the United Kingdom, according to data released today by the...
Three share Nobel award for chemistry Two Americans and a Japanese scientist have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for molecular research used in making medicines. William S. Knowles and Ryoji Noyori...
The Guardian Many of those involved in modern social policy will tonight pay tribute to Richard Titmuss, Britain's first professor of social administration. The Times&...
Tories back university expansion Shadow higher education spokesman Alistair Burt told delegates at the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool that there was no going back on university expansion...
Today's main story The 100th Nobel prize for medicine has been awarded to Sir Paul Nurse, the director general of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, his British colleague Dr Timothy Hunt, the head of...