Universities will work to give students “clear and accurate” information about the additional costs of courses following an agreement between the National Union of Students and bodies representing UK...
A damning report on the “damaging culture of league tables” in the UK was this week launched by the British Academy. So it may come as a surprise that as editor of the most influential and widely...
Glyndŵr University claims that it has been “disadvantaged” for “following government policy” after funding allocations for Welsh universities indicated that it could suffer a 20.3 per cent drop in...
Almost all Russell Group universities have failed to reach independently set levels for admitting pupils from state schools and poorer backgrounds, new figures show.
University leaders from all over Kazakhstan gathered in Almaty last week for an intensive two-day workshop, titled “Experience of Kazakhstan Universities in the ߣߣƵ World...
Philip Kemp has qualms about the purpose of an examination of a dumb comedian's physicality
People should read this book. They should read it if they are obsessive weight-watchers or serial dieters, or just concerned about what their children eat. They should read it if they work in public...
For many years, willpower was out of fashion. In psychology, both Freudians and behaviourists were sceptical of the idea that we have conscious control, and the dominant view was that teaching self-...
Simon Blackburn explores an ancient moral concept that some consider fundamental to human society
Darwin fails to explain fully why some evolved traits are so exquisitely alluring, finds Jon Turney
Magic at the Elizabethan court, Glyn Parry argues here, was pretty much like sex. Even if no one talked about it openly, everyone was thinking about it, wanted to do it and feared they might not be...
"How did psychoanalysis attain its prominent cultural position?" This book, first published in 2006 in French and now available in translation with some light additions and changes, attempts to...
'More must be done' to entice UK students to spend time on foreign soil. Matthew Reisz writes
Dementia researchDouble down on UK expertiseOverall funding for dementia research will more than double to £66 million by 2015 to try to make the UK a world leader in the field. The announcement was...
Private help is needed to upgrade the country's higher education sector, business college chief tells Rachel Williams