We look at the top performers on each measure and suggest what their success means for the sector's development. The Times Higher-QS World University Rankings are a composite measure in which six...
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCILThe Arts and Humanities Research Council has recently announced the first awards granted as part of the Beyond Text: Performances, Sounds, Images, Objects...
Books on Fire
Natural Environment Research Council- Award winner: A. W. G. Pike- Institution: University of Bristol, School of Arts- Value: £101,841Dating the Palaeolithic cave art of the Iberian peninsula by...
The Boy behind the Mask
Jeffrey Richards revels in Piers Brendon's vivid evocation of a liberal Empire with an irreconcilable paradox at its heart.
World University Rankings 2008: find out who are the world's top 200.
FILM STUDIESDeleuze and the Cinemas of Performance: Powers of Affection.By Elena del Rio, assistant professor of film studies, University of Alberta. Edinburgh University Press, £55.00. ISBN...
Brussels, 25 Jul 2006 A team of German and US researchers has announced plans to decipher the genetic coding of our closest relative, the Neanderthal, within the next two years. If successful, the...
ART AND DESIGN- Railways and the Western European CapitalsBy Micheline Nilsen, assistant professor of art history, University of Indiana. Palgrave Macmillan, £45.00. ISBN 9780230607736Nilsen looks at...
We look at the top performers on each measure and suggest what their success means for the sector’s development.
Science and the Indian Tradition
UK universities are exploring fresh opportunities to open campuses in China, amid signs that the country may not have closed the door on further foreign higher education ventures, as previously...
The Human Past
After nearly a decade of work, an international team of earthquake scientists has produced the first estimates of seismic hazard levels for the entire world.At a meeting of the American Geophysical...