There has long been a struggle between the soul of strong intelligences with decent feelings and the deathly conventions and leaden diction of required form in doctoral dissertations. Robert James is...
The 1980s and 1990s brought exciting but often alarming change on the political front in Europe. Who could fail to have noticed? The demise of communism in Eastern Europe and the resurgence of...
Reality TV is the consequence of liberalisation, a mix of the idiotic and the sublime. Clive Bloom surfs the multichannel-verse in search of entertainment
LondonShadow CatchersPhotography is usually thought to require a camera to fix fleeting lighting effects on a flat surface. Yet it is equally possible to create images directly on photographic paper...
Current DisturbanceThis is TomorrowWhitechapel Gallery, LondonThe Anglo-Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum's Current Disturbance is an exceptionally disconcerting installation. It consists of a tight...
Dear All,Last year was another year of achievement for Poppleton University.We retained our existing position in all but four of the leading university league tables and learned that our policy of...
Felipe Fernández-Armesto's words of advice to unpopular or indecisive presidents and ministers who doubt their own policies
...and other quandaries to mull over. Malcolm Gillies takes the temperature
Liberal arts study, with its long view of how humanity has met its trials, is touted as ideal for the 21st century - but it's a hard sell
Chief scientific adviser and population biologist Sir John Beddington opts for collegiate problem-solving, writes Paul Jump
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Oman is seeking to upgrade its main university so that it can join the ranks of world-class institutions.Sultan Qaboos University, with 14,700 students - almost half of them women - and a state-of-...
A leading figure in the movement to recognise experiential learning has died.Norman Evans was born on 6 August 1923 and educated in Bournemouth and at Rydal School, Colwyn Bay. After serving on...
It was good to see Mary Curnock Cook, the head of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, reviving interest in a post-qualification application (PQA) system for university places ("Ucas...
Sally Feldman mentions the demise of the Lifelong Learning Networks ("Fuel for enlightenment", 9 December), which have been generously funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England for...