In his work Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Italo Calvino urges consideration of brevity as a positive and welcome attribute in writing, but it is unlikely that he had in mind a book quite as thin...
By now, books, articles and blogs about the virtues and vices of online distance learning are hardly new, and are frequently repetitive. But Taylor Walsh's Unlocking the Gates is different. She...
Michael King takes a look at legal, human rights and societal issues from a lawyer's perspective
Over the past decade, historians working on the Second World War have shifted their attention from the origins of the conflict to its impact. Fighting across the world between 1939 and 1945 led to...
Simon Baron-Cohen, the eminent researcher into autism, has set himself a mission. He wishes to convince us to jettison talk of "evil", and focus instead on the concept of empathy deficiency. For him...
Top 30 Research Institutions in OceanographyData provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, January 2000-December 2010Â Organisation and nationHighly cited papers...
Admissions standards cited as Derby and others explain doctoral failures. Paul Jump reports
The government might consider offering private colleges cash incentives to encourage them to take over or merge with failing public institutions, a report says.
Students who applied for courses now being shut down by London Metropolitan University face a desperate search for places at other institutions.
Ex-president of UUK predicts shifting trade winds for global higher education. John Morgan reports
Universities need to move away from rewarding academics for the volume of grant applications they submit, a senior figure has warned.
As state cash dries up, university plots £200m deal to outsource campus halls. Simon Baker reports
A Conservative peer and former head of a British airline has given £1 million to Loughborough University to provide "practical help" to local entrepreneurs.
Accountancy body seeks to create more schemes linking degree study and work, writes Simon Baker
Research spendingNo government target to be setDavid Willetts, the universities and science minister, has ruled out setting a target for the proportion of the UK's gross domestic product that is...