Leader: ...but the UK can be top spot for science
Roger Pedersen's arrival in Cambridge is the kind of development that the politicians responsible for the big increases in British science funding have been hoping for. He cites not only the cash...
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Looking forward, and back from 9/11
As September 11 approaches, THES writers look at research in the US and UK in the wake of the attacks and US academia's fight to present a balanced view. A year is too short a time for most scholars...
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Liberal minds not welcome
As September 11 approaches, THES writers look at research in the US and UK in the wake of the attacks and US academia's fight to present a balanced view. For a fair number of US academics, September...
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Students clamour for courses
As September 11 approaches, THES writers look at research in the US and UK in the wake of the attacks and US academia's fight to present a balanced view. US sharpens judgement This autumn, two dozen...
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What if nothing at all has changed?
As September 11 approaches, THES writers look at research in the US and UK in the wake of the attacks and US academia's fight to present a balanced view. The US has rejected an opportunity to reflect...
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Tragedy grapples with gap between human meaningfulness and despair
In following the excavation efforts at Ground Zero, Jennifer Wallace was struck by how we mirror the theatrical tragedy in trying to answer shocking loss with a reminder of the value of those we...
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Revealing the Red Planet
Next June, Leicester University will embark on a mission to Mars - via the Beagle II lander, which it helped to design. Geoff Watts reports. From December next year, if all goes well, a small patch...
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If food is in the larder, then why not on the table?
Hunger is a political not a production problem, writes Julia Hinde. At the launch of the United Nations conference on sustainable development in Johannesburg, South African president Thabo Mbeki...
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The trick is to produce more to eat from far less land and then make sure it is distributed equitably
An adequate diet is a basic human right but it will take innovation and political will to deliver it to all. Brian Heap argues that we need an agricultural revolution to secure food for the future....
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Say no to touchy-feely simplicity 1
Michael Wood's contention that intellectual evolution may stop unless learning is made easier (Soapbox, THES , August 30) is disastrous in its implications. There is a big difference between...
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Say no to touchy-feely simplicity 2
Reading Michael Wood's "I'll make it simple", I was struggling to choose its single most misguided notion. Not wishing to give up, I offer the following example of its absurd touchy-feely commercial...
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Say no to touchy-feely simplicity 3
If you set Frank Furedi's piece on universities failing the Trade Descriptions Act (Features, THES , August 16) alongside the leading article on "degrees retaining market value" ( THES , August 30),...
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Get real about returns
Professors of public economics should not make the kind of errors betrayed in Nick Barr's comments on the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development report on graduate earnings ("UK...
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No corporate threat
The main purpose of the corporate university is to act as a platform for business development (Leading article, THES , August 23). As the main learning objectives are a response to the competitive...
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Measure of success
The third mission of a university is not to make money ("Spin-off funding spells danger", THES , August 30) but rather to impart new knowledge to business and the community - having first generated...