Education secretary Charles Clarke started the debate on the purpose of universities to counter the "utopianism" of many responses to his recent higher education white paper. In an interview with The...
The new chair of the elite Russell Group of universities will turn it into a more formal body with its own executive posts. Michael Sterling, 57, vice-chancellor of Birmingham University, will take...
Tragically I was an Only Twin
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel with a famous death scene: "Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking...
No Time to Be Brief
Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust
How not to Be a Hypocrite
Libraries and Learning Resource Centres
Who Wants to Be a Scientist?
Envisioning Science
From: The office of the vice-chancellor Dear colleague, I am delighted to bring you the results of the Poppleton staff opinion survey. Q1. How would you describe your degree of job satisfaction? a....
University fundraisers all agree on the big thing that major donors want - to see their names on something that will last much longer than they will. A look at libraries, business schools and endowed...
Charles Clarke wishes it to be known that there is no witch-hunt for academic seekers after the truth, medieval or otherwise. Obviously stung by allegations of philistinism after THES reports of his...
As Beagle 2 prepares for lift-off, The THES looks at the state of UK space science and the fate of the Beagle that took Darwin into history The UK has shied away from planetary science, but now that...
The landing site Dave Rothery, senior lecturer in earth sciences at the Open University On December 26, Beagle 2 will come to rest on the barren surface of Mars. By then, the first phase of Dave...