Plagiarism may seem a modern malaise, but accusations of 鈥榖orrowing鈥 and outright theft of words and works were a scourge of 19th-century literary culture. Robert Macfarlane surveys opinion on...
聽 Conferences, Issue no. 4 Published in The Times Higher on聽March 23 2007 聽 Leader 聽 'While e-conferencing may be environmentally friendly, virtual interaction is no substitute for the real thing'...
University is accused of censoring antisemitic Islam lecture The University of Leeds was accused of infringing free speech last night when it cancelled a lecture on 鈥淚slamic antisemitism鈥 by a German...
Deadline: 27/04/2007
Research jobs cut 'to meet the cost of government failure' Scientists claim that about 1,000 research jobs will be lost this year because the Government is cutting science funding to compensate for...
Computer curfew for students after spate of campus suicides For more than a decade the seven elite Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have been churning out world-class computer whiz kids for the...
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an autobiographical work: "In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. In the month of...
James Joseph Sylvester - Arthur Cayley
Darwin Loves You
Is Pluto a Planet? A Historical Journey through the Solar System
The Curious History of Relativity
The Nations of Britain
Mrs Duberly's War