In a volume that the author considers the culmination of his life's work and the final statement he wishes to make on issues he has been struggling with for nearly half a century, Abdullahi Ahmed An-...
As chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1961, Newton N. Minow famously remarked that American television was a "vast wasteland". Currently vice-chairman of the Commission on...
1. Introductory Statistical Mechanics by Roger Bowley. Oxford University Press, £31.99. ISBN 97801985057612. Key Concepts in Cultural Studies by Maja Mikula. Palgrave Macmillan, £13.99. ISBN...
GEOGRAPHY- The Columbia Gazetteer of the WorldEdited by Saul Cohen, specialist in political geography and university professor emeritus at Hunter College of the City University of New York. Columbia...
This year, overseas students are playing a more active role than ever within their student unions and are beginning to galvanise national disquiet about some of the difficulties they face… The spring...
Getting the most from your research grant with the help of the procurement department
Inspiring students in the lecture hall requires honing your rhetorical technique and considering your audience.
The University of Cambridge is spending £2 million per year on subsidising sandwiches while academic journals are being cancelled and students fight for scarce research grants, according to Ross...
An expert on comics has challenged academics who get snooty about Lord Snooty and his Beano pals. Christopher Murray, who this week hosted the second annual conference on comics at the University of...
A conference analysing "train wreck" female celebrities will look at the gender dynamics of fame and the popularity of news stories about the women we "love to hate". Hosted by the University of East...
A higher education "superfair" was due to be hosted by Anglia Ruskin University this week, bringing 7,000 potential university students and representatives of 120 other institutions on to its campus...
The independent travel publisher Lonely Planet has produced a guide for prospective University of Glasgow students from around the world. The 48-page guide, produced in association with the...
Fashion designer Karen Millen and charity HOPEHIV are to work with the University College for the Creative Arts at Rochester to train a group of 20 young people with HIV in South Africa in fashion...
A lecturer is using mobile-phone voting to ensure that quieter students take part in his tutorials at the University of Portsmouth. Manish Malik, a senior lecturer in electronic and computer...
Associate tutors at the University of Sussex who are paid by the hour are protesting after a revaluation of their jobs resulted in pay cuts for some. Hourly paid tutors in some schools have been...