The UK higher education sector will struggle to remain world class if the Government spends public money creating new university centres in Britain's higher education blackspots.That is the warning...
John Ashworth wonders whether Cara's 75th anniversary is really a cause for celebration or a reason for reflection
The lack of an intensity measure could dent confidence in the outcome of the research assessment exercise, says Brian Cantor
Gary Day on the physics of time, lonely women flirting with youth, religion, and the aftermath of flu
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Is student-centred learning a sound practice based on mutually respectful shared scholarship or a managerialist fad that fails to stretch the brightest? John Gill weighs the arguments
In social situations, topologists and biophysicists alike find that their enthusiasm for their discipline is not always infectious. Matthew Reisz reports
Chattering classes - Student-centred learning is built on sharing opinions, but is it just faddish babble?
A case study on musical performance takes us into rarely charted waters, finds Martin James
Parham Aarabi's slim volume is intended to be a practical guide to giving enthralling lectures to an internet generation with reduced attention spans, but even as a member of the Channel 4 generation...
Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001-03) was a global phenomenon that dominated screen culture in the early years of the 21st century. On a national level, an entire country, New...
A physicist's stories captivate Chris Sachrajda
The Crime of Reason: And the Closing of the Scientific Mind by Robert B. Laughlin, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass professor of physics, Stanford University, Basic Books, £15.99, ISBN 9780465005079"...
The forthcoming 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution will be marked by an avalanche of commentary. Some, especially in Latin America and Africa, will be characterised by admiration and gratitude...