The Sunday Times Festival of Education 23-24 Jun 2012 Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire, RG45 7PU The weekend will be packed with discussions, panels, lectures and workshops featuring over...

Even in the most optimistic economic projections, it seems the UK will remain squeezed for at least ten years. At the same time, the large growth in income inequalities experienced since the 1970s...

CERN's Large Hadron Collider experiments (ATLAS and CMS) may be closing in on the 'Higgs boson' particle predicted by Higgs, while the OPERA experiment may be finding that neutrinos travel faster...

If you were designing the prison system from scratch, how would you set up its educational function? Would you emphasise skills that are in demand in the employment market? Social skills like...

For as long as there has been authority, there’s probably been resistance to it. Resistance can take many forms, from quiet disengagement to violent conflict. Some of these acts of resistance are...

Increased longevity — thanks largely to improvements in health care and medical technology — is devoutly to be wished for, but in a sense it only puts off the inevitable: we all die, and some of...

Although it was foreshadowed by other events, the dramatic collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 seemed to mark a turning-point in the fortunes of the developed Western economies. Since then an...

The Arts Desk, Britain’s first professional arts critics website, presents two debates in one. Arts writer and critic Fisun Güner will chair a discussion with critic Sarah Kent, ICA Director...

Based on the Professional Skills for Government Framework, the emphasis of this one-day course is on showing delegates how to: - analyse and use evidence effectively - get evidence into policy and...

Professor Wade Allison of the University of Oxford will explore the topic of life and nuclear radiation.