In an era of instantaneous communication, the medium of animation has permeated our visual culture. From the annoying office assistant on your computer to animated graphics on your mobile phone, from...
Gustav Stickley
TOP DON IN HONOURS SHOCK The world of academe was reeling last night at the shock news that Professor Gordon Lapping had not featured in the new year honours list. In an exclusive interview with the...
TOP DON IN HONOURS SHOCK The world of academe was reeling last night at the shock news that Professor Gordon Lapping had not featured in the new year honours list. In an exclusive interview with the...
Time will tell whether the student-support package announced with this week's higher education bill is sufficient to win over enough Labour "rebels". None of them has done any rebelling yet...
The debacle over the constitution for an enlarged European Union has faded from the headlines, and enthusiasm for the concept has dwindled. For higher education, however, 2004 is the year the Bologna...
Time will tell whether the student-support package announced with this week's higher education bill is sufficient to win over enough Labour "rebels". None of them has done any rebelling yet...
The debacle over the constitution for an enlarged European Union has faded from the headlines, and enthusiasm for the concept has dwindled. For higher education, however, 2004 is the year the Bologna...
The claim that "open-access" journals will replace the traditional subscription model and open up access to research is wrong ("Crusaders for a truly free flow of ideas", THES , January 2). Despite...
The article "Call to put research free on websites" ( THES , Dec 19/26) is welcome, but it repeated the most frequent misunderstanding of open-access self-archiving - a persistent error that keeps...
While I agree with Lord Winston's message to open an informed dialogue between scientists and the public ("The public pay, so give them their say", THES , January 2), the examples he chooses to...
Bill Durodié is right to say there is little scientific evidence to indicate that the MMR vaccine causes autism (Letters, THES , January 2). But most parents are not scientists with specialist...
So the University of Luton plans to make a further 50 lecturers redundant ("Redundancy drive aims to free up cash at Luton", THES , January 2). This means that it will have shed a total of nearly 200...
Brendan Simms writes in his review of A Century of Genocide that genocide "is as authentically European as croissants, borscht or dumplings" (Books, THES , January 2). He cannot be accused of...
Many of us across the university sector feel that the recent extensive exposure given to the Russell Group is misguided and, frankly, boring. This self-selecting lobby of so-called "top" universities...