Identifying seven higher education colleges as candidates for university status is not quite on the scale of the polytechnics' elevation in 1992, but it was still bound to create a stir. Inevitably,...
Higher education unions might have known better than to get themselves entangled in the web spun by the British National Party. Precisely the same issues surrounded student members of the National...
Hidden in the Yorkshire landscape where the M1 and M62 motorways cross lurks the ghost of the Outwood, the ancient manorial forest of Wakefield, writes John Rodwell. Marked on the ground now only in...
The man who found the key to the cell cycle that drives life now wonders what directs it. Tim Hunt recounts his achievements and looks ahead to the future In biology, the questions look hard, but...
With research cash increasingly targeted at interdiscipIinary study and cutting-edge science becoming ever-more complex, the aphorism 'it's not what you know but who you know' has never been more apt...
Natfhe's belief that academics should not have to teach BNP members raises the question of whether political correctness is curtailing freedom of speech. Matthew Baker reports In a Salford University...
Women's boozing might explain the high levels of child mortality that blighted the continent, argues Lynn Martin Growing up in late medieval Europe was not easy. Historical demographers have...
Britain's ancient woods are living time capsules of centuries of human exploitation of the environment. How best can we preserve them, asks Ian Rotherham Our complex and dynamic ancient woods are a...
Juliet Lodge understates the UK level of ignorance of, and lack of commitment to, a European higher education area in her analysis of the government white paper (Opinion, THES, May 30). A briefing...
The report "RAE reform to shut out one in three" ( THES, May 30) presents an apocalyptic vision and names me as its creator. It lists institutions that allegedly would no longer receive research...
It is good that Sir Gareth Roberts' research quality assessment is designed to take the element of gambling out of submissions. But it seems inevitable that some departments will lose research money...
Alison Wolf mistakenly states that vice-chancellors, through Universities UK, have failed to make clear their views on three issues (Opinion, THES, May 30). UUK has not been afraid to rock the boat,...
As an English-language specialist, I help students do what Martin Luck ("Give their grammar a fine-tuning", THES, May 23) suggests PhD students should do progressively: organise their writing, touch...
Refusing to teach British National Party members (Letters, THES, May 30) shows extreme intolerance and brings the very purpose of academia into question. Our purpose is either to teach within the...
In the course of a career, most teachers will come across students with whom they vehemently disagree. Specialising in ethnicity and nationalism, I have dealt with students here, in South Africa, and...