The research assessment exercise review panel wants to see radical change. The THES asks three experts to do some out-of-the-box thinking It is 15 years since the first research assessment exercise,...
The research assessment exercise review panel wants to see radical change. The THES asks three experts to do some out-of-the-box thinking My first suggestion for improvement of the research...
Randolph Nesse is on a mission. Normally a professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan, he is spending a year at University College London, and one of his targets while in town is the "...
Belinda Chang and her colleagues have used molecular biology to recreate history in their laboratory How do you research the vision of a creature that's been extinct for more than 200 million years?...
Can we use evolution to our advantage in the fight against disease? Martin Ince speaks to Sir David Weatherall (pictured) about the potential of molecular medicine Evolution by natural selection is...
Can religious fervour be inspired by low-frequency sounds from organ, or even drainage, pipes? Christopher Wood takes a spine-tingling look at infrasound Some of the world's great thinkers have...
Top-up fees, debt and moves to reform governance make for turbulent times at Cambridge, so how will Alison Richard, its first female vice-chancellor, weather the storm? Walter Ellis expects heads to...
Real and imagined terrorist threats are driving governments to scrap basic freedoms in a fight against a virtual enemy, say Conor Gearty and Gerd Oberleitner How fragile is our commitment to what we...
If it is true that private companies are to be given degree-awarding powers so as to promote competition in higher education ("Go-ahead for corporate degrees", THES , November 29), then three issues...
I see that prominent free-marketeer James Tooley is congratulating new Labour for "thinking the unthinkable" with plans to, in effect, privatise the authority to award degrees. One thing puzzles me...
As someone who teaches and researches in pure biochemistry and sports and exercise science, I am used to my work in the latter area being trivialised by my more traditional colleagues. Still, now...
As is shown by Ray Monk's review of Bernard Williams's Truth and Truthfulness ("Up against a tide of denial", THES , November 29), academic philosophers are once again busy fabricating a muddle about...
The Greenfield report on getting more women into science ( THES , November 29) makes a number of costly recommendations. Laudable though they would be in a well-funded system, as things stand they...
Your leader "Students must be convinced of a degree's value" ( THES , November 29) gets straight to the heart of the matter: "parental income, rather than graduate prospects, determines whether and...
Your report on Partnerships for Progression (P4P) ("Meet target or lose cash, report warns", THES , November 29) suggested that the Higher Education Funding Council for England would withdraw funds...