A thousand years of better mousetraps
A Culture of Improvement
Search
-
-
Artist revelling in the plasticity of daily life
Anna Halprin
-
First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an Irish author who was executed: "I have read of men who, when forced by their calling to live for...
-
Manipulators ruled the world
After Tamerlane
-
Soldiering onward in the quest to mould the future
Introduction to Global Military History
-
-
One voice to tell one nation's story of freedom
Give Me Liberty!
-
British Academy/ACU Grants for International Collaboration
Deadline: 15/10/2007
-
Sofja Kovalevskaja Award
Deadline: 09/01/2008
-
Neuroscience/mental health research grants
Deadline: 26/09/2007
-
Neuroscience/mental health collaboration grants
Deadline: 26/09/2007
-
Neurosciences/mental health trial grants
Deadline: 26/09/2007
-
Small Grants
Deadline: 15/10/2007
-
Overseas scholars ease staff shortage
Foreign academics make up a fifth of the workforce. Tony Tysome reports. One in three academics in some subjects is now from overseas, according to the latest figures, as universities increasingly...
-
V-c job with 6,000 on selection panel
Ask most independent-minded academics what they think of the people who manage them and you are likely to get a long and often forthright answer. But human resource chiefs at Birmingham University...