Earlier this year, The Guardian devoted one of its "In praise of..." editorials to Giorgio Vasari, on the 500th anniversary of his birth. It celebrated one of the most remarkable and influential...
In the 1980s, the Brundtland Commission's report on sustainable development radically stated that the environment was important for the poor. Damage to the environment was caused by the poor, but...
Degas may be long dead, but his figures move through time to remind us of the beauty of his work and its visceral power, writes Michael Howard
LondonHamra Abbas: CitiesKuwaiti-born artist Hamra Abbas was educated in Lahore and Berlin, and now divides her time between Boston and Islamabad. The works on display at the Green Cardamom gallery...
Credit: BBC/Estate of Vasily GrossmanFirst-hand experience: Vasily Grossman's manuscript was "arrested"Life and FateBBC Radio 4The Archers is sacrosanct. But from Sunday 18 September until a week...
Kirk Swavely, our Senior Manager of External Relations, has welcomed the "brave" policy stance recently adopted by Eric Thomas, the new president of Universities UK.Swavely told our reporter Keith...
How important are doctoral students to research - and vice versa? Jon Cartwright reports
• When he learned last year that vice-chancellors were earning an average annual salary of £220,000, Aaron Porter seethed with righteous indignation, describing the sum as "obscene" and accusing...
It is folly to emulate a US higher education system that, according to OECD figures, is failing so many of its young citizens
OK. I shall be the one to raise the question that cries out to be asked of my country's university staff, administrators and government financiers. Why do we enrol so many PhDs? Why do we entice so...
University of LeedsTheo RaynorIt was the white coats of the pharmacists at his local Boots store in Skegness that inspired Theo Raynor to pursue a degree in the field. Now Professor Raynor, currently...
US public servants badly need union support, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
The provocative 'Blue Labour' and 'Red Tory' visions for renewal put forth by two academics have the ears of their respective party leaders - and a good deal in common, says A.W. Purdue
When Jorge Cham adapted his hugely popular PhD cartoon for film, he eschewed animation and hired real Caltech students and academics for his comically true-to-life doctoral tales. Paul Jump reports
Here is a little puzzle. Picture two groups. In one, place those blogs that you have read about academic, cultural or political matters that interest you. In the other, put the newspapers most often...