When it comes to higher education in the Republic of Korea, most of us would find it hard to answer key questions. What do you think about their university research priorities? Who would you partner...
The Council for the Defence of British Universities aims to repel the market forces that it says threaten the academy's values
Sector wakes up to discriminatory effects of unconscious prejudice. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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This tale of friends, lovers and fighters for political change has epic sweep, says Robin Feuer Miller
Sally Munt on a critical guide to the economic system’s baleful effects on the individual mind
Fit is Robert Geddes’ attempt to distil a lifetime of learning during a distinguished architectural career into one slim volume. It evolved in response to sociologist Nathan Glazer’s critique of...
The non-human great apes - our closest living relatives - are on the edge of extinction. Planet without Apes highlights the myriad threats facing the estimated 300,000 to 400,000 remaining chimpanzee...
A close-focus study of Arab schooling calls Western views into question, writes Carine Allaf
The Russian Revolution that launched the world’s first self-proclaimed communist state - the Soviet Union - was billed as a great leap out of the benighted past into a radiant future. The second...
Mark Mazower’s stimulating work analyses how the world was governed (or at least how attempts were made to govern it) in the periods following three “settlements”. First came the Concert of Europe,...
Launched during the First World War, Ladybird created probably the UK's most iconic - and now most nostalgic - series of 20th-century children's books.
University of EdinburghJulie TaylorThe head of strategy and development at the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has taken up a new post at the University of Edinburgh. Julie...
Weary of cronyism, many in Italy welcomed a metrics-based research evaluation - until they saw the catalogue of approved publications, ‘crazy lists’ that ignored many journals in favour of provincial...