There’s good news as well as bad, international educators hear
Universities have been urged to use financial worries as an opportunity to reassess their internationalisation strategies in the spirit of “never letting a good crisis go to waste”.
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Opinion: Very in curia practices
In a climate of higher fees and rising unemployment, student litigation is likely to increase. Adam Brett offers his evaluation of what universities must do to stay out of court
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Tobacco cash bad for your moral health, Durham told
Durham University has been urged by a senior official at Cancer Research UK to return funding it received from British American Tobacco.
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Union guns for Salford’s ‘white elephant’ as Sheffield staff strike over pensions
Hundreds of the University of Sheffield’s lowest-paid workers are on strike today in a dispute over pension cuts, while union officials at the University of Salford claim that a multimillion-pound “...
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The Fate of Greenland: Lessons from Abrupt Climate Change
Rapid global temperature shifts are nothing new, as Steve Yearley learns from a cold country's core
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Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Junk Food, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity and Gambling Feel so Good
There's more to enjoyment than electrical impulses - Steven Rose feels better distinction should be made
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You Can Help Your Country: English Children's Work during the Second World War
When we think of children in the Second World War, a common image is that of evacuees bound for the countryside. The war, and in particular the German air raid attacks that led to the widespread...
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Shakespeare: From Upstart Crow to Sweet Swan, 1592-1623
Queen Elizabeth II opened the new Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon on 4 March, four years after it closed for a redevelopment costing £115 million. On 30 March, the coalition...
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The Lure of the Arena: Social Psychology and the Crowd at the Roman Games
Tom Palaima agrees that people's fascination with watching violence against others doesn't change
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Talking to the Enemy: Violent Extremism, Sacred Values, and What it Means to be Human
During the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln upbraided a critic by asking "do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?" Scott Atran wants the US to follow Abe's example by, if not...
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Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next
As a scholar of scientific and technological utopias, I have read countless visions of the allegedly perfect society. It has long been common to depict a future society in which transportation is...
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The Age of Auden: Postwar Poetry and the American Scene
David Gewanter detects the inconvenient truths in a passionate look at a great British cultural export
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The Battle of the Styles: Society, Culture and the Design of a New Foreign Office, 1855-1861
The present-day Foreign Office in Whitehall is an imposing building...whose genesis is bizarre. In 1857 a competition was held to pick an architect, which provoked a huge row between two rival...
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Liberty's Exiles: The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British Empire
The American Revolution against British rule in the future US tore families apart. While Benjamin Franklin, American Patriot and inventor of the lightning rod, was in Paris drumming up support for...
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Grant winners
THE WELLCOME TRUSTEach winner will receive between £1 million and £3 million, with the total allocation worth £56 millionInvestigator Awards• Award winner: Jurg Bahler• Institution: University...