The crisis of confidence in A levels might have been expected to lessen any controversy over the efforts of leading universities to boost the share of places going to state-educated students. After...
Through the stories of captives, Linda Colley found an alternative image of the British Empire that had itself been locked away, writes Karen Gold. When the British historian Linda Colley met her...
Alison Utley talks to an academic who lost a libel case. This case really isn't about me, it is about all the trauma that so many families have been through over so many years," says Richard Barker....
The Institute of Education has had a lively 100 years. Huw Richards spoke to its biographer about some memorable moments and the struggle to establish a discipline's credibility. Sir John Adams is...
The 1992 Olympics brought cash and kudos to Barcelona, but not everyone enjoyed the bonanza, reports Beatriz Garcia. The year 2002 will be remembered for many things in Britain - not least of which...
In its quest to build a lucrative global brand, has Man United lost touch with its true home fans? Adam Brown reports. It was the small hours of February 25 2001. A conga line of about 300 Manchester...
Michael Charlton describes the first controlled production of antimatter, a missing 'half' of the stuff of creation. In 1931, motivated by little more than an extraordinary faith in the mathematical...
Supernovae sent Robert P. Kirshner a startling message he did not want to hear - that the universe was expanding rapidly. So maybe Einstein's 'bad idea' was correct after all. It was a warm winter...
When should a professor resign? When should a university choose to dismiss an academic? What constitutes bringing a university into disrepute? The very fact that such...
Vice-chancellor Sir Alec Broers states that Cambridge University council is "emasculated" because every decision can be questioned by a handful of people ("V-c attacks selfish dons", THES , October 4...
It is difficult to compare the differences between Cambridge's and Massachusetts Institute of Technology's intellectual property rights policies, because the two universities are so different ("...
Richard Gregory's elucidation of mirror images (Books, THES , October 4) becomes clear when we imagine a fly crawling over a vertical mirror. If it crawls to our left, the fly "in the mirror" crawls...
The view that modular courses examined at the end of a semester lead to lower levels of educational attainment ("Students choke on bite-sized learning" and Leading article, THES , October 4) is...
Please do not confuse "modularisation" with "semesterisation". Coventry University has a modular system but, apart from a small number of courses, has never been semesterised. Almost all of our...
It is hard to reconcile your critique of semesters with your admiration for top US universities. No one has demeaned my Massachusetts Institute of Technology education because it was organised in 15-...