"What do US higher education people think about the Bologna Process?" a university rector asked me at last month's Eurasian Higher Education Leaders' Forum in Astana, Kazakhstan. Resisting the urge...
It鈥檚 not too early to tell who is to blame for the unnecessary death of millions, says Kerry Brown
Alison Bashford applauds a magisterial study of scarily relevant bioeconomic history
A doorstop of a book from Allen Lane can be a daunting prospect. But, having read Anne Applebaum鈥檚 prizewinning Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps (2003), I knew that appearances can be deceptive....
Since the 2008 election of Democrat Barack Obama, the US鈥 first black president, a movement known as the Tea Party has emerged within the Republican Party. Here, Lawrence Rosenthal and Christine...
The man-woman pairing displaced other well-established forms of bonding, finds Robert Mills
These are exciting times for Irish archaeology. Investigation into sites, buildings and artefacts surviving from the later medieval and early modern period (c.1200-c.1700) have yielded important new...
鈥淲hat is the use,鈥 asks Alice at the opening of her Adventures in Wonderland, 鈥渙f a book without pictures or conversations?鈥 If we extend her argument, what could be of more use than a book that...
This impressive Orthodox cross, made from intricately carved cypress wood, was used for the benediction of the congregation during the Liturgy and was probably made in the monastic community of Mount...
King's College LondonEvelyn WelchAn award-winning historian has been appointed vice-principal (arts and sciences) at King's College London. Evelyn Welch joins the college from Queen Mary, University...
Genius and madness may be two sides of the same coin and both states exhibit 鈥榦ut-of-the-box鈥 thinking. Such unusual thought patterns are key to creativity but can also lead reason astray. Glenn...
Go fish - Universities aim to land prize catches for the REF
We aim to help all our students progress, says Malcolm Gillies
A leading commentator on European integration, UK and European foreign policy and the role of Britain in Europe has died.Dave Allen was born in Surbiton, Surrey, on 1 February 1949. He took an...
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