Princess Anne has opened a new building that will house up to 90 staff and space for research and teaching. The South Courtyard Building at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine contains...
A short film co-produced by a university psychologist has won the award for best lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender film at the London Independent Film Festival. Homoworld is a 17-minute film...
Peace triumphed over War - again - in the latest round of the Tolstoy Cup. The annual football match between teams from the peace studies department at the University of Bradford and the war studies...
We asked you to tell us the moment in history you would most like to have caught on video camera. The diverse - and creative - results are now in. Our ten favourites are printed below, in no...
United StatesLawyer loses on 'frivolous' groundsA lawyer who sued Columbia University for failing to offer men's studies courses has lost his case. Roy Den Hollander accused the university of bias...
Public outcry followed dismissal of global expert on climate change. Melanie Newman reports
President Nicolas Sarkozy is refusing to back down from planned reforms to French higher education despite 15 weeks of strikes by academics and a call by university presidents for a moratorium.
Gary Day sings an ode to manliness, from 11th-century swordplay to 21st-century six-packs
Sian Moore finds an examination of the biased press coverage of the miners' strike instructive
As Jacalyn Duffin points out, it is rare to find a modern Western medical clinician studying the role of religion in medicine and healing. She addresses this taboo head-on in her analysis of records...
In 1960 a young American-Jewish historian published a monograph that revolutionised not only our current understanding of Jewish immigration to England a century ago, but also our approach to the...
History holds clues to coping with contemporary crises, but a rigorous approach is essential, says Margaret MacMillan. She talks to Matthew Reisz
Why did they do it? Frank Furedi on the erosion of civil rights in the post-9/11 US
The Wal-Mart story illustrates sea changes in US culture, writes Rebekah Peeples Massengill
There is a view reaching back to Plato that art produces second-rate knowledge. Howard Cannatella seeks to demonstrate that the mimetic approach found in art education embodies a more valuable form...