London, 4 August 2006 International Education Comparisons - A compendium of published information on education provision and achievement in 10 countries (2180 KB) The position of the United Kingdom...
The Long Tail
Classic Biographies series
The Intellectuals and the Flag
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel by a West Indian writer: "One grim winter evening, when it had a kind of unrealness about...
Gilgamesh - The Literature of Ancient Sumer
Colossus
The Jasons
The Science of Doctor Who
Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London
The Organisation of Knowledge in Victorian Britain
Before the Bauhaus
Poll shows lecturers are alarmed at growing threats to their academic freedom, reports Jessica Shepherd Four in ten academics say their freedom to express controversial or unpopular opinions is under...
Stressed academics might prefer to unwind in the pub, but an initiative at Birmingham University offered them the chance to chill out at a "workplace wellbeing day", with salsa classes and meditation...
US fundraiser Joe Beyel has taken up the post of director of development at Nottingham University Joe Beyel has been responsible for fundraising campaigns totalling well over $735 million (£392...