Nine UK universities have been recognised by the European Commission for their efforts to improve working conditions and career-development opportunities for research staff. The institutions have...
The time and effort spent gaining a PhD is repaid handsomely in excellent career prospects, according to research presented at the Vitae researcher development conference today.A study of doctoral...
As alumni donations to US universities plummet, Canada and Asia forge ahead. Hannah Fearn writes
The vice-chancellor of the University of Wolverhampton is to retire next summer as she feels it is “time to do something else” after 40 years of full-time work.Caroline Gipps, who was appointed by...
Alex Danchev takes a thrilling ride that immerses the reader in the work of Caravaggio but bypasses his infamous personal life
On the eve of the Reformation, Lucy Wooding is struck by the evidence of popular piety
'Sophistication' eludes definition, and yet provocatively invites us to pursue, capture and possess it." So Faye Hammill begins her fascinating and engaging study of the je ne sais quoi of...
In this, the 70th anniversary year of Charles de Gaulle's appeal to the French people to continue their fight against the occupying Germans, it is timely to review one of the most important books...
Francisco Ramirez sizes up a bold bootstrap-and-technology bid to fix the 'broken' US academy
When people joke about the meaning of life, it is a sure sign they are fretful. Is life driven by point and purpose, or is it a chaotic, rudderless and aimless flux? Was Shakespeare's ruminating...
Victoria Bateman believes this analysis of the banking crisis could help prevent a repetition
In 1996 I was invited by the Council of the Baltic Sea States to chair a committee of Western European political scientists, economists and lawyers charged with the task of inspecting and evaluating...
In this new survey of well mapped if politically contentious terrain, R.C. Richardson sets out fresh and important queries. Why has the history of household service recently become fashionable via...
ARTS AND DESIGN- Between Art and Anthropology: Contemporary Ethnographic PracticeBy Arnd Schneider, professor of social anthropology, University of Oslo; and Christopher Wright, lecturer in...
Seventh annual survey draws on robust new methodology and 13 performance indicators. Phil Baty reports