Late bloomer takes place among HEA winners
An academic who left school at 15 is one of the winners of the Higher Education Academy’s doctoral programme awards.
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UWE staff mull walkout over workloads
Staff at the University of the West of England are considering strike action in a dispute over their workloads.
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UCL and Imperial partner with Intel to create research institute
Imperial College London, University College London and the computer firm Intel have launched a research institute they hope will help to shape the way cities work in the future.
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Student Loans Company chief to stand down
Ed Lester, the Student Loans Company’s chief executive – whose tax arrangements sparked a public outcry – is to step down, it has been announced.
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Unions set to reject final pay offer
Unions have expressed their disappointment after universities tabled a final pay offer for next year of 1 per cent.
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Willetts to make funding announcements in industrial strategy speech
The results of a new method of distributing money for bioscience institutes based on their contribution to strategic programmes and national capacity have been announced by the government.
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Consumption and Its Consequences
Hedonism and selfish materialism are noticeably absent from the shopping list, says Eric J. Arnould
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The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire
Egalitarianism is hard to find if you pass over anthropology for archaeology, argues Chris Knight
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The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812
Many Britons may not be aware that the bicentennial of the War of 1812 will commence in June. Before anyone thinks of Napoleon's ill-fated Russian campaign, the War of 1812 referred to here was a...
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A House Divided: American Art since 1955
How do artists go public? How is their work critically received? And how might they contribute to its reception, from writing public statements to publishing private memoirs, staging publicity...
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Pills, Power, and Policy: The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold War America and its Consequences
Sergio Sismondo on Big Pharma's use of its political muscle to avoid regulation in the US
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The Appian Way: Ghost Road, Queen of Roads
This delightful, literally lightweight book takes you on a brief journey from Brindisi in the heel of Italy's boot to Rome; but what an engaging journey! Robert Kaster and his wife travelled the...
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English Nationalism and Euroscepticism: Losing the Peace
Englishness has long been a puzzle both to philosophers and to historians. As long ago as 1741, David Hume declared: "The English, of any people in the universe, have the least of a national...
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Between the lines of a tale of murder and motive
A debate over 90-year-old Irish killings illuminates historians' conflicting roles. Matthew Reisz reports
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Super-skinny models won't supersize the profits
Academic's research makes compelling case for 'diversity in fashion'. Matthew Reisz reports