Education

“It was rolling on the compost heap, where I rake up deer droppings,” said a groundsman, describing the giant black cat he confronted in the grounds of a care home in south-west England, back in 2012. “It jumped the fence and went like a rocket across the next field.

Michael Faraday’s illustrated notes that show how radical scientist began his theories at London’s Royal Institution to go online.

Transnational Education (TNE) is reshaping the future of higher education in the US by offering students the opportunity to earn degrees from global i

Mummy aroma may provide insight into social class and historical period, according to a team of trained mummy sniffers

In 11th-Century England, a dark-skinned saint with a promiscuous past became a boundary-breaking cultural and religious icon. A new study is hoping to reassert her place in history.

Recently Alan Jacobs did me the favor of summarizing my philosophy of education, which is useful because I always have such a hard time doing so myself.

Some universities across the United States are reducing or halting their PhD admissions because of federal-funding uncertainties stemming from actions taken by the administration of US President Donald Trump.

Later this month, on the holiday of Purim, Jewish people will dress in silly costumes, eat triangular pastries, and listen to an ancient story about attempted genocide. What we notice, and don’t notice, about that story says a lot about what we notice, and don’t notice, in Israel and Palestine.

It was the late 19th century and European nations were beginning to look at the African continent as a more permanent resource base for their newly growing industrial sectors.

We live in a world where less and less seems to be universally agreed on, but there is one important exception.