On A. J. P. Taylor's Europe, Grandeur and Decline . There can be little doubt that the writer who most influenced me intellectually was A. J. P.Taylor. I came under his spell as a teenager watching...
Walter Oakeshott
Mozart
At-a-glance guide to every institution's performance in the 1996 RAE These graphics, prepared by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, show the performance of every institution entered in...
Media Studies: Westminster University, 1992 rating: 5, 1996 rating: 5 WESTMINSTER University's media studies department got a 5 in 1992 - and found itself the subject of serious media attention,...
Biosciences: University of Hertfordshire, 1992 rating: 1, 1996 rating: 2 CHRISTOPHER Atterwill, head of the biosciences department at the University of Hertfordshire, joined the institution in 1990,...
Economics: Birkbeck College, University of London, 1992 rating: 5, 1996 rating: 5 IT MIGHT have suffered the worst ever drubbing in the history of TV's University Challenge earlier this month, but...
Mechanical Engineering: Imperial College, London, 1992 rating: 5, 1996 rating: 5* HEADS would have rolled at the mechanical engineering department of Imperial College, London, if its researchers had...
History: Oxford, 1992 rating: 4, 1996 rating: 5* Research assessment panels delivered their verdicts on university and college departments throughout the UK this week. A bad grade can close a...
The tables are not available on the database. II How your subject did. III-IV How your university did at a glance. VIII-XV How your department did. XVI THES League table of excellence The 1996...
The tale of Mrs Typical is one of lost income that will plague her for life, according to research from Birkbeck's economics department. Hugh Davies, lecturer in economics, has constructed income...
The biomechanics group is one of Imperial's biggest patent sources, covering products such as artificial elbows, knees, shoulders and ankles. Andrew Amiss heads the group and one of his research...
Broadcast media in eastern Europe continue to suffer heavy political interference despite the collapse of communism and rise of democracy, research at the University of Westminster has revealed....
Ewen Green's main submission in the 1996 RAE shows why historians chafe at the exercise's arbitrary time limits. Dr Green, fellow and tutor in history at Magdalen College, published Crisis of...
This week's First Impressions comes from a philosopher who was close to Pope and never far from a mitre: "Philosophy being nothing else but the study of wisdom and truth, it may with reason be...