Laurie Taylor column
So, all in all, Julie, I think we can safely describe your work as fairly satisfactory. Your tutors do say that you lack a certain analytical edge but if you maintain your present standard, you...
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Alan Ryan
'The cheapness of tuition at US public institutions is explained by bad staff-to-student ratios, mediocre salaries and an awful lot of casual help' If the UK adopts US-style fees, neither the hopes...
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Leader: Colleges are key to expansion - if quality is assured
If and when half of all young people experience higher education by the age of 30, it will be thanks in no small measure to today's further education colleges. The government's target tends to be...
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Leader: Non-traditional degrees confound the sceptics
The contrasting fortunes in the jobs market of graduates in information technology and media studies should be a lesson for academic snobs and manpower planners alike. Who would have thought five...
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Wife swaps and killing: meet the ancestors
They hurled babies into ravines and culled their workforce yearly. Historian Paul Cartledge thinks we could learn a thing or two from those Spartans. Jennifer Wallace reports. A small closely knit...
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The future masters of the univers(ity)
UK higher education is a multibillion-pound industry, yet most of its 'chief executives' have only limited management experience. Caroline Davis looks at how a new MBA aims to address this lack of...
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Stress expert who thrives on her subject
Angela Clow juggles multiple roles in a hectic schedule as project leader, caring mum and the practical woman of her department. In the third of our series All in a Day's Work, Harriet Swain meets a...
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Dimming the light of reflected glory
Our craving for heroes has created images of scientific supermen who single-handedly changed our lives for the better. But, argues John Waller, we should be looking at the wider picture. In the BBC's...
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Will his shouts from the window attract a real superset of prime candidates?
How do you inspire young people to pursue mathematics? Karl Sabbagh meets an offbeat talent-spotter. Charles Ryavec is a trim, grey-haired man in his 60s, teaching at a strange institution called the...
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One problem that remains to be solved
How do you inspire young people to pursue mathematics? Martin Ince looks at UK efforts What is the problem with mathematics in British universities? Ask anyone and you will get the same reply: "...
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Picture imperfect
I certainly aged in the four weeks between photographs in The THES (In the news, October 4; "Celebrity snares", November 1). I am obviously not the celebrity you think as the error went unnoticed by...
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Not our business
Alan Shipman's claim that the MBA might not be worth the paper it is printed on ("Is the masterplan coming unstuck?", THES , November 8) is true only for a minority of graduates. There are more than...
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Is Evans worthy?
Gillian Evans has fought doughtily to make Cambridge University central administration stick to the rules, so eyebrows may be raised over reports of her promotion to professor before Regent House...
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Petition has clout
Queen's University Belfast's decision to axe classics ("Poet Heaney joins protest over axeing of classic", THES , November 1) means that potential students "will have to leave the province to do a...
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Help with the kids
I read with interest the argument that top-up fees will mean that most academics will be unable to afford to send their children to university (Letters, THES , November 8). Up until 1950, some...