Leader: Academe has much to gain from table talk
People working in higher education will never like league tables. Nor will teachers, policemen or doctors. Any broad-brush rankings contain sufficient anomalies for professionals to argue that fair...
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Leader: We see your problems, but no quick solutions
The Treasury's decision to publish the cross-cutting review of science and research this week - it was completed in March - fuels speculation that its recommendations will find their way into next...
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Who'd make a monkey out of 'first man'?
Is the 7-million-year-old Toumai skull the earliest example of mankind? Palaeontologist Michel Brunet made headlines when he said it was - but not all his colleagues agree. Jane Marshall reports...
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Digs at beer, balls and belly fluff give laureates a laugh
The annual Ig Nobel awards for the oddest research, at which real Nobel prize-winners often cavort on stage, are helping to popularise science. Steve Farrar reports The message left on Chris McManus'...
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There's more to mud than meets the eye
From identifying a dismembered body to investigating Bronze-Age decking, it's all in a day's work for environmental archaeologist Nick Branch. Chris Bunting reports When Nick Branch is on his...
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Maids, exiles, bankers and terrorists break down borders
Steven Vertovec explores the vast, often hidden networks of modern, global diasporas Irish or Italian migrants to the US 150 years ago might have hoped that a letter would reach home weeks after it...
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Comrades stop by for a political bring-and-buy
Is student activism reviving? Ivor Gaber drops in on a UK teach-in It was almost like old Vietnam times: two dozen student activists sitting in a room in London University's School of Oriental and...
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Historian holds US front line in war against war
Is student activism reviving? Stephen Phillips talks to a US campus political veteran. As a US air force bombardier stationed in Britain during the second world war, bestselling radical American...
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Learning curve: It's not only OK, it's great to say 'I think'
Tutors must inculcate in students a confidence that lets them express their views, writes Chris Hopkins First-year English students often ask this apparently stylistic question: "Is it OKif I say 'I...
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Yiddish lives on
Readers of "Outcry as Soas drops Yiddish" ( THES , October 11) might think that Yiddish is no longer available at London University. But Yiddish is alive and well across the road at University...
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Small bites or starve
Why did we modularise (Letters, THES , October 11, 18)? Because offering minors, majors and single honours in each subject across a large modular scheme allowed small subjects to attract enough...
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Focus on real threat
Preparations for war against Iraq are illegal and are diverting attention from the war against terrorism ("What lurks in the shadows", THES , October 18). Britain's attorney-general has ruled that...
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Merge quietly
Your leader on the Imperial/University College London merger ("Ministers could find full cost fees too hot to handle", THES , October 18) makes much of the challenge to Oxbridge. This may be a...
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Pretty impartial
Stephen Gundle (Letters, THES , October 18) perversely misreads my review of Paul Ginsborg's Italy and its Discontents (Books, THES , September ) as a personal attack on Ginsborg. He fails to...
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Quality request
I am writing an account of the development of quality assurance in UK higher education between 1992 and 2002. I am interested in any work on the impact of quality assurance regimes, particularly...