The University of Edinburgh has taken out advertisements in UK national newspapers to explain the new tuition fees system to non- Scottish students because it fears that they do not understand the...
EPSRC policy programme'Don't rush decision,' IoP pleadsThe deadline set by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for final decisions on its "shaping capabilities" programme is too...
Journalism with academic analysis can create material with impact - but will the REF consider it? asks John Mair
The LSE made mistakes in its links with Libya, as Lord Woolf found. Judith Rees, its director, says it will learn from those failings
Laurie Taylor revels in the shock of recognition as a scholar laments the dying of the light
Experts will relish these paradigm-shifting concepts but lay readers may struggle, warns Graham Farmelo
I should probably keep this quiet - I know how huge academic salaries are and that you'll snap up the London house I've always had my eye on. One of the three riverside terraced houses on Cardinal's...
No sooner had I reviewed for this publication (3 November) William Ophuls' Plato's Revenge: Politics in the Age of Ecology, which asks us to rethink our relationship with the most famous Greek...
Two hundred thousand heads are better than one: Harold Thimbleby on the worldwide web of thought
Fan fiction is simply fiction created by fans of other works, who borrow characters or fictional worlds from these works and create short stories, books or (increasingly) audiovisual content using...
As status-seeking managers multiply, they pervert the university's core mission, Alan Ryan laments
Roger Morgan can't complain about a study of realms that have faded to 'join the choir invisible'
This is a diverse and stimulating collection of essays. It must be said, however, that although there is much of interest here, and it deserves to be widely read, a good deal of it covers familiar...
In his 1980 book The Third Wave, American futurologist Alvin Toffler proposed that there are periodic bursts of intense radical change when each new emerging society supplants its predecessor....
Combining an academic life with travel writing isn't easy but, as Matthew Reisz discovers, the results can be fascinating