Like me and many other neuroscientists who study memory and who find ourselves explaining what we do to non-neuroscientists, Rodrigo Quian Quiroga must often have encountered people who claim they...
The main question raised by Michael Shattock’s new book is whether any underlying pattern can be discerned in post-war UK higher education policy. A number of writers have pointed to an increase in...
Democracy suffers when the Islamists, the military and the secret police collude, writes Mariz Tadros
Among the many processes that are said to define contemporary English universities are those of commercialisation, bureaucratisation, infantilisation and marketisation. To this list Joanna Williams...
Until the age of slides and computer displays, printed wallcharts and three-dimensional models were essential teaching tools within universities. Many combined scientific accuracy with great beauty...
King's College LondonTony CharmanKing's College London has appointed a child autism expert to its Institute of Psychiatry. Tony Charman, who has previously held posts at University College London's...
Scholarship has long been international but the current vision of a ‘worldwide’ academy of rootless student-consumers and national economic competition is as contradictory as it is immoral, argues...
Living with bipolar disorder is nothing like the movies, says Sally Feldman
Alec Ryrie salutes a committed and critical look at a key event in the history of Catholicism
Data on the number of eligible staff submitted to the REF will produce better rankings - but funding councils must play ball
“It’s time to get tough with illness.”Those were the fighting words used by Louise Bimpson, Corporate Director of our ever-expanding Human ߣߣƵ Department, as she introduced the brand new “Let’s...
The number of students gaining first-class degrees has risen by almost 50 per cent over the past five years, data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency have shown
Whether spurred by lofty research ambition or the prosaic hope that one can live more cheaply than two, universities’ urge to merge can bring cultural as well as organisational challenges, as recent...
One academic’s experience of coalescing institutions was not a positive one, largely owing to a lack of forethought or consideration
TV series dramatising the rise of department stores highlight a turning point in consumer culture, as entrepreneurs seduced female shoppers into becoming part of the bourgeois set