A substantial majority of the British public would like to see student grants restored across the United Kingdom as they are being in Scotland. They also share the Cubie committee's view, since acted...
The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age
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This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a comic novel by an Englishman best known as a playwright: "The sky grew darker and darker as the...
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'If we were disaccredited, it would be the accrediting agency that looked foolish.' Harvard's departing president Neil Rudenstine tells Auriol Stevens about the challenges of running a world-class...
From social history to quantum physics, television is hungry for experts, so if you want to give your academic career a kickstart, get some media exposure, advises Adrian Mourby. Once upon a time,...