In his 1980 book The Third Wave, American futurologist Alvin Toffler proposed that there are periodic bursts of intense radical change when each new emerging society supplants its predecessor....
Combining an academic life with travel writing isn't easy but, as Matthew Reisz discovers, the results can be fascinating
NewcastleKeith Pattison: No RedemptionThe miners' strike of 1984-85 tore apart many long-established communities. Keith Pattison was at Easington Colliery to photograph the events from behind the...
Credit: PerouLa SoiréeRoundhouse, London, until 29 JanuaryNate Cooper arrives on stage on out-of-control roller skates, slipping and sliding in every direction, never managing to find a secure...
One of Poppleton's leading social psychologists, Doctor Mike Goshworthy, has admitted faking many of the results that helped to make him a national media figure.Dr Goshworthy told The Poppletonian...
A chancellor may seem archaic, but the role can be updated and reinterpreted to perform a truly valuable service for universities
Transparency and support for all UK science are the aims of the STFC's new chief. Paul Jump reports
Call for 'safe protest zones' as demonstrators face violence on US campuses. Jon Marcus reports
• An attempt to reignite the "Climategate" row with the leak of a second batch of emails stolen from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia fell flat. Whereas the release of the...
It has grown fashionable recently to pronounce that the distinction between public and private colleges and universities is now anachronistic.In Australia, as well as in the UK, we understand all too...
London School of EconomicsPaul De GrauweAn economist and former member of the Belgian Parliament has been named the first holder of the John Paulson chair in European political economy at the London...
‘Damning’ report criticises governance, but Saif Gaddafi likely to keep PhD. David Matthews writes
Academia must follow the Church’s lead in debating ethics, says Malcolm Gillies
University chancellors are a mixed bag of rock stars and actors, politicians and entrepreneurs, but are they mere glad-handing figureheads or can they make a genuine difference to the institution...
Why has the idea of publicly funded higher education crumbled so quickly in England? James Vernon explores the origins of an academic culture that has internalised market rationalities and traces the...