The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has declined to mothball its controversial shaping capability policy but agreed to work more closely with learned societies on implementing it.
We're all in this together or we won't be in it at all: Jules Pretty on a call to arms for the planet's future
The life of a polymath with 'piercing sagacity' is delightfully rendered, finds Tim Birkhead
If society is a metaphorical building and income levels determine which floor people get to live on, then who inhabits the basement, who lives in the penthouse, who lives in between, and how much...
Joanna Bourke begins What it Means to be Human with a curious letter from "An Earnest Englishwoman" to The Times in 1872, enquiring whether women might be classified as animals. It transpired that...
A skewed comparison of opera's heavyweights results in a bloodless spectacle, notes Mark Berry
What is Madness? begins beautifully, echoing R.D. Laing's 1960 manifesto The Divided Self, with references to European (and especially French) thinkers that few of its readers may be familiar with,...
In 1900, the highest-paid living writer, and the most notorious, was Marie Corelli. Her 1893 novel Barabbas: A Dream of the World's Tragedy went through 54 editions in her lifetime, sold more than...
Journal subscriptionsSlightly more bijou 'big deal'Research libraries have reached a three-year "big deal" agreement with journal publisher Wiley-Blackwell that "takes into account the financial...
Watchdog says institutions may suffer for selling what they can't provide. David Matthews reports
Sector can use toolkit to gauge whether it is worth investing in coaching. David Matthews reports
Lack of language skills hampers UK graduates' efforts to find employment. Jack Grove reports
"No one would want to be a shambling, rotting corpse," said Marcus Leaning, senior lecturer in media studies at the University of Winchester. "Yet since the early 2000s, there has been a...
South AfricaState steps in at Walter SisuluA third South African university has been placed in government administration after landing in financial difficulties. Hundreds of staff at Walter Sisulu...
'Abysmal' Australian provision may isolate nation as East rises. Phil Baty reports from Adelaide