The 20th century was the century of scientific inquiry and technological innovation. It filled our lives with new gadgets and new understanding. More profoundly, science and technology have informed...
Stephen Court looks at what 50 per cent participation in higher education really means and asks if it is achievable. Although education had a low profile in the chancellor's pre-budget report last...
Student feedback has a crucial role to play in evaluating institutional performance, writes Lee Harvey. Student feedback surveys have a unique element: they provide an insider view of what is really...
To rid the world of chemical weapons requires sustained political and financial commitment, argues John Hart Chemical weapons have been a feature of conflict throughout the 20th century, employed by...
Chemical warfare is a growing threat, but we know very little about its long-term implications, argue Christine Gosden and Derek Gardener. The 20th century provided a catalogue of weapons that could...
The research councils should be "capable of operating as a 'virtual single council'" whose boundaries are invisible to the people they work with. This is the message of the quinquennial review of the...
A barrage of complaints over ministers' decision to ditch individual learning accounts will be brought to the government's door next week with a lobby of MPs and a cross-party forum at the House of...
Turkey's Higher Education Authority (Yok) has told pro-Kurdish students that they face expulsion if they press for Kurdish-language rights in universities. The use of the language in universities...
Courtauld becomes London college The Courtauld Institute of Art is to become a college of the University of London. At present it is an integral part of the central university with no separate legal...
Higher education spin-offs push Britain up entrepreneurial league Spin-off companies created from higher education institutions have risen sharply in number, challenging the view that British...
Sociology was young when Margo Russell came to it. Over her career, it went from a tool for social change to a much-derided Mickey Mouse subject - but its value remains. I came to sociology before it...
A CEO in search of excellence should avoid the insipid management books in airport bookstores and turn to Shakespeare - so Richard Olivier believes. Huw Richards reports. " We few, we happy few, we...
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel whose title comes from the first speech in Milton's Samson Agonistes: "The snapshots had...
The Little Ice Age
Brendan O'Leary on 40 years of Amnesty International campaigning. Amnesty International turned 40 this year. The organisation, especially in comparison with most internationalist non-governmental...