In Susan Hill's superlative ghost story The Small Hand, a London book dealer named Adam travels on behalf of a wealthy client to a remote French monastery in search of Shakespeare's First Folio. Hill...
In our troubled times, there is much to learn from John Maynard Keynes' approach to understanding and remedying the problems of stagnating economies and unstable financial systems.Interest in Keynes...
An investigation into our behaviour shows we're not as logical as we imagine, Miriam Teschl discovers
Julie Doyle used to study techniques for the visualisation of the body in the context of anatomy; in her spare time she was a Greenpeace campaigner. This book blends those preoccupations: it asks how...
Igor Stravinsky's stature as one of the most influential composers of the modern era seems all but incontestable, and Charles Joseph's study accordingly situates its subject as the 20th-century...
Small gains for colleges may come at cost of university collaborations. David Matthews reports
United StatesContraceptives cause headachesA Pennsylvania university has denied that it is encouraging sexual promiscuity among students after gaining international notoriety for allowing...
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCHHealth Services and Delivery Research programme• Award winner: Russell Mannion• Institution: University of Birmingham• Value: £449,878Effective board governance...
Timothy Gowers is boycotting Elsevier and hopes to spark reform that will replace expensive journals with a more rational system
Collaboration should not be a dirty word in the arts, says Stephen Mumford
Stiff fines await over-recruiters, with London Met facing a possible £6m bill. John Morgan reports
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has deferred until the end of March more decisions on which areas of mathematics and physical sciences will grow or shrink.
The poor research record of US for-profit institutions makes them unworthy of the term "university", UK academics have claimed.
Business secretary overrules committee on Ebdon in a politically charged process. Simon Baker writes
Ebdon's Iceland holiday may have facilitated BIS panel's cold shouldering, reports Simon Baker