There was something for everyone in this week's two big research reports: the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's annual international survey and the Higher Education Policy...
The UK is storming ahead in the expansion stakes, but the competition is still fierce, warns the OECD. David Jobbins reports The UK's university expansion has been among the fastest in the...
As more students travel abroad to study, their destinations are becoming less predictable, reports David Jobbins The collapse of last week's trade talks in Cancun seems unlikely to halt higher...
...don't lose hope. A new generation of tailor-made antidepressants is being developed using cutting-edge genetics, writes Samuel Barondes Philip became severely depressed after losing his girlfriend...
How does geography affect events? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto argues that we can't make sense of human history without considering its contexts, such as climates and our animal nature By the standards...
In submitting this in an essay on how she spent her holidays, a teenager sparked a furore about literacy. But does texting really harm language and learning? asks Michael North The text in the...
Schoolchildren are not the only ones to use text in essays. As Jason Garner testifies, students often resort to finishing their exams with it - bad news for the old farts who must mark them Essay...
Kicking off a series on how concentration of funding threatens innovative research, Olga Wojtas reports on a world-class Scottish entrepreneurial computer software unit "Ever wondered what would...
Some researchers fear that the environmental lobby is turning away from scientific balance to push an anti-capitalist agenda by 'scaring the hell out' of people. Chris Bunting investigates Stephen...
I am not surprised at the correlation between research assessment exercise and Quality Assurance Agency scores. A department with above-average research funding is likely to have relatively more "...
While I am sympathetic to further education principals' frustration that universities might hijack foundation degrees rather than work in partnership ("FE chiefs air alarm over new degrees", THES ,...
Further education colleges are right to be concerned that higher education institutions will go it alone on foundation degrees. The Hefce consultation on teaching funding proposes that foundation...
Sir Harry Kroto believes the war against Iraq was illegal (Opinion, THES , September 12). This judgement is highly disputed among specialists in international law. Experts disagree, as did the...
Sir Harry Kroto is clearly against action that removed from power a tyrant who murdered, raped and mutilated thousands of his own people. Kroto claims to "espouse free thinking and have no mystical...
I was astonished by Sir Harry Kroto's view of Tony Blair and Iraq. Now we have the solution to the dilemmas of modern statecraft: listen to reasonable people. I am sure the prime minister is kicking...