Ben Kafka is wised up to any jokey allusions one might play upon his name: he is a witty, very well-read and genial master not only of the Marx and Freud he takes as prime movers of his little jeu d’...
Credit: Penn MuseumThis male skull within a "craniostat" forms part of the Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection, now held by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology....
University of SheffieldSarah WigglesworthAn award-winning architect and professor of architecture at the University of Sheffield, Sarah Wigglesworth has become the first woman to be appointed a Royal...
Oxford scholar offers full-length analysis of staged ‘two-culture’ entanglement. Matthew Reisz writes
David Matthews reports from the World Innovation Summit for Education in Doha and hears Tony Blair’s former adviser argue for university ‘turnover’
Don’t let the scholars grind you down - Karel Reisz’s son reflects on academic interpretations of his director father’s work
Event hears how online learning offers ‘alternative public realm’ for Iranians. Matthew Reisz reports
Erika Cudworth considers the ethical dilemmas posed by the decline and death of a beloved ‘pet’
The 50th anniversary re-release of Lawrence of Arabia allows us to reassess cinema’s sensual relationship with the desert, Davina Quinlivan writes
The CDBU’s set-up is too narrow, too limiting: to fulfil its aims it must reach out and diversify, argues Alice Bell
Christopher Bigsby on cases not of single spies but battalions
Supportive voices petition Cambridge authority over massive property deal. John Morgan reports
The number of overseas students attending university in the US reached a record 764,495 during the 2011-12 academic year, according to figures from the Institute of International Education.The data,...
Australia swapped its higher education quality agency for a body with more powers and a much bigger appetite for detail. A year later, the sector is still eyeing Teqsa warily, reports Paul Jump
A research oceanographer who made a major contribution to the development of sonar has died.Victor Anderson was born on 31 March 1922 to missionary parents in Shanghai, where his father was principal...