This 6ft polycarbonate model of a rhino - named Erica - has been transformed into an interactive cyber hub by the University of Southampton’s department of electronics and computer science.Erica acts...
Creating a charter of core values for universities that people across the sector can rally around and defend is the aim of a forthcoming event.The Convention for Higher Education, being held in...
Nation likely to lose fruitful position in UK research system, experts say. David Matthews writes
As Baz Luhrmann’s film sparks Gatsby-mania, Catherine Clinton asks if any interpretation can live up to the novel’s elusive genius
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“Art is long, life is short,” goes the old saying. Scholarship and scientific research suffer much the same condition. They are long. But art, scholarship and scientific research no longer struggle...
This is a curious book to have come out of Oxford University Press in that it is written in a refreshingly accessible style, displays much erudition, yet has no scholarly footnotes and often engages...
Just as relations between open-access advocates and their bête noire, the publisher Elsevier, were starting to thaw ever so slightly, a PR disaster for the company threatens to plunge it back into...
Working-class students struggle with ‘composite masculinity’, study finds
Lack of online interaction could signal need for support, research suggests
Treatment to avoid cuts would do more harm than good, critics say
Can the Social Science Centre really build a local institution offering a reimagined higher education free of the market? Alastair Bonnett meets participants in an alternative knowledge economy
Study identifies better use of research capacity outside Anglo-American sphere