A new study has looked at how quickly the pre-conscious mind makes decisions before they become conscious. Volunteers at Goldsmiths, University of London were shown faces that were only slightly...
Digital mapping specialists have been using their skills to help victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti. Three members of staff and dozens of students on Bath Spa University's geographic...
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According to well-informed sources meeting after dark behind the squash courts, Professor Doug Gunter of our Politics for Business Department faces disciplinary action over statements made during his...
Felipe Fernández-Armesto is sceptical about claims cat-owners are smarter
The head of the STFC tells Zoë Corbyn how he hopes to shield big science from financial shocks and crises
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John D. Brewer reflects on his passion for two artists who transcended social convention and produced work redolent of a bygone time and place
Despite the tales of jiggery-pokery employed to climb in the league tables, there is no need to sacrifice mission to position
When Private Eye takes notice, it's a sure sign that something's afoot. So when the satirical magazine ran its recent piece "Brussels is Oxbridge blue", it confirmed that university league tables are...
A popular law lecturer who wrote about topics ranging from paddle steamers to biblical prophecy has died.John Greed was born on 18 November 1937 in Bridgwater, Somerset, and educated at Taunton...
Staff at the University of Oxford believe "very little needs to be done" to promote racial equality, despite half of their students claiming to have experienced racism.More than 1,000 members of...
The appearance of Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister, Danny Ayalon, at Oxford Union provoked protests and scuffles last week. Interruptions came from protesters criticising Israel's conduct in...
The Government's policy to concentrate research in fewer so-called "elite" universities seems odd to me ("'Golden triangle' to win funding riches", 11 February). First, in a political world where the...
You have misrepresented the University and College Union's position on academic freedom. In your editorial, "Rise up, freedom fighters" (11 February), you say that the UCU "doesn't really get...