Universities need to “show more imagination” to create a culture of lifelong learning in the higher education sector, Sir David Watson said this week.Speaking in his role as chair of the Commission...
Behaviour is judged within cultural contexts and, says Christine Purdon, excused if deemed positive
Sometime during the 1340s, a child was born in Lincolnshire and brought up as a boy called Nicholas. In his twenties, Nicholas married a young girl called Katherine. Unfortunately, Katherine soon...
Denise Heywood dedicates this book to the dancers who survived the horrific years of the Pol Pot regime (1975-79), when 90 per cent of Cambodian artists and artisans were murdered. The few who...
Robert Bradley enjoys a clear, elegant exposition of the history and principles of topology
"There is", writes Irving Singer in his prefatory note, "no definitive termination in this text, or in anything else I write." He adds that "because my mission is not historical, I feel justified in...
1. Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air by David Mackay. UIT Cambridge, £19.99. ISBN 97809544529332. Oliver Cromwell: New Perspectives edited by Patrick Little. Palgrave Macmillan, £17.99. ISBN...
Simon Mitton is pleased to see other great physicists get their due
Elsewhere, USA: How We Got From the Company Man, Family Dinners and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms and Economic Anxiety by Dalton Conley, university professor of the social...
Juggling family life and a career in science is a struggle for women, Elizabeth Whitelegg observes
When Bronson Alcott took his children off to a commune with instructions not to eat meat or wear animal products, the little Alcotts, freezing on a diet of apples while wearing politically correct...
Written by an American scholar of religious studies at North Carolina State University, this book argues that conservative evangelical Christians are driven by the fear that America is being taken...
? = Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES?Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of WarBy Jeffrey A. Lockwood, professor of natural sciences and humanities, University of Wyoming. Oxford...
A flurry of movement at the top ranks of universities in mainland China caught the public's attention towards the end of last year.Among those to move were Zhou Qifeng, former president of Jilin...
A significant proportion of academic staff at this university may be using drugs to enhance their performance.This was the shock implication of remarks made last week by Doctor Fritz Itzig of our...