Published this week
ART AND DESIGN- Railways and the Western European CapitalsBy Micheline Nilsen, assistant professor of art history, University of Indiana. Palgrave Macmillan, £45.00. ISBN 9780230607736Nilsen looks at...
ART AND DESIGN- Railways and the Western European CapitalsBy Micheline Nilsen, assistant professor of art history, University of Indiana. Palgrave Macmillan, £45.00. ISBN 9780230607736Nilsen looks at...
Martin Mills finds an idealist at the apocalypse, but asks why one of our Dalai Lamas is missing
GEOGRAPHY- The Columbia Gazetteer of the WorldEdited by Saul Cohen, specialist in political geography and university professor emeritus at Hunter College of the City University of New York. Columbia...
Devastating pandemics remain a threat to public health. Sir Gordon Duff heads the vigilant scientists who protect us.
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCILAward winner: Malcolm ValeInstitution: University of OxfordValue: £721,073The Gascon Rolls 1317-1468Award winner: James HegartyInstitution: Cardiff UniversityValue...
World University Rankings 2008: find out who are the world's top 200.
To suggest that the University of Melbourne follows the Bologna model ("Monash to focus overseas", October ) is to misunderstand developments here. Our Melbourne model, which includes a suite of high...
Fellowships tempt rising research stars from abroad to UK to strike up long-term relations, writes Zoe Corbyn
Dropouts and cuts won't change Bolton's entrance policy, George Holmes tells Melanie Newman
Kent University's first visiting professor in tourism has brokered UN treaties on heritage and the environment. Unesco director of ecological and earth sciences Natarajan Ishwaran will be coming to...
Simon Barton is disappointed by a lopsided, broad-brush tale of Dark Ages Muslim-Christian clashes
Overseas student applications contribute to record enrolment figures. John Gill reports
Fifty years ago, the seismologist Charles Richter - he of the famous scale - lamented that "ancient accounts of earthquakes do not help us much; they are incomplete, and accuracy is usually...
(J) = Review forthcomingARCHITECTURE- (J) The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New YorkBy Gail Fenske. University of Chicago Press, £34.00. ISBN...
A law lecturer argues that ethics rules must sometimes allow researchers to act illegally in fieldwork. Melanie Newman writes