What value a degree in the humanities? The £25,000 it soon may cost? Indeed, in the age of "impact funding", what value the humanities at all? Lionel Trilling's 1971 book can still guide a thoughtful...
It took Italians an age to embrace the tomato, but the rest is juicy history, says Robert Appelbaum
Visiting the Temple of Vaccinia in the huge garden of Edward Jenner's house in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, is a delightful experience today. The rustic little building still stands where Jenner...
In most Western countries, the late 19th century saw a mania for building statues, many of them contentious at the time and many not standing the test of time. Since the late 20th century, we have...
S. Subramanian finds uncomfortable reading in the power play between the North and the South
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The UK's longest graffiti mural has been painted on to the building-site hoardings surrounding a new environmentally sustainable student-accommodation development. Street artist Mohammed Ali spent...
An engineer has demonstrated how teddy bears can travel at supersonic speeds. Ray Wilkinson, principal lecturer in engineering at the University of Hertfordshire, showcased his work in rocketry as...
Two academics are hoping to break the world distance and duration records for female balloonists. Janet Folkes, a mechanical engineer from the University of Nottingham, and her co-pilot Ann Webb, an...
Authors who pay to see their work in print can hold their heads up high: self-publishing has shed its shady past and is now a respectable business, an academic has claimed. Alison Baverstock, an...
Chinese students will be able to study for a British business degree in Shanghai after the Chinese government granted permission. The University of Sheffield has signed an agreement allowing it to...
Dentists in Wales are investigating the effectiveness of two methods of preventing child tooth decay in a £1 million project that they hope will be of benefit to deprived communities. Despite an...
The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has selected a team of academics from Northern Ireland to help improve peace and tolerance education in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Fifteen...
An acclaimed historian is to deliver a lecture on the "greatness and limitations of the West" in tribute to a former director of the London School of Economics. Heinrich August Winkler, who until...
Physicists could play a key role in a planned space mission to study gravitational waves. A group from the University of Birmingham would play a key role in the mission, which the US National...