The Erasmus Scheme was set up in 1987 with the admirable aim of increasing academic mobility within Europe.Via the funding of exchange programmes for students and staff, the scheme involves 90 per...
Students will receive a generous salary and have their tuition fees and accommodation costs met while studying at Durham University under a recruitment programme announced by the accountancy giant...
Mike Cole and Sara C. Motta defend the record of post-Chávez Venezuela, a country that offers a vision of genuine participatory democracy in stark contrast to the West’s cynical politics
The proportion of students gaining good degrees is continuing to climb, according to official figures published today.
Tony Mann is inspired by a book that debunks the stereotypical view of men and women of numbers
Petra Boynton surveys a candid and moving account of the sexual mores of an older generation
The economist Adam Smith described the European discovery of the Americas as the "greatest and most important event recorded in the history of mankind". Despite what we know about the brutality and...
The German Democratic Republic, its life and demise, has garnered its fair share of academic attention over the past 20 years. Moreover, popular films such as Good Bye, Lenin! and The Lives of Others...
Tom F. Wright admires a spirited attempt to restore some justice to the woman Dickens wrote off
It is particularly heartening to read scholastic work that is both accessible to a non-academic audience and intellectually stimulating for those working in the academic arena. In Death in War and...
The political theorist, Judith Shklar, once commented that in order to understand political conduct, it is not enough merely to study instrumentalist-rationalist behaviour and related outcomes, as...
Religious diversity in the US is more a force for tolerance than for discord, argues scholar Robert Putnam. Jon Marcus reports
LondonThe Land of Light and Promise: Ludwig Blum (1891-1974), a 20th-century OrientalistThe works of the classically trained Czech-born Israeli topographical artist Ludwig Blum, perhaps the finest of...
Our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, has announced that Poppleton will be paying "no attention whatsoever" to recent research from the University of Madrid, which shows that...
The coalition's consensus policies manage to benefit no one, says Alan Ryan