An autumn white paper is a sensible way to address the interlinked problems of student support and higher education funding. Why ministers ever thought they could be resolved separately is a mystery...
The ingredients of the timebomb threatening Bell Labs and the journals that published its disputed findings on novel materials include scientists under pressure for results, published preferably in a...
Early guidebooks to Greece told of hazardous melons and handy haberdashers. Mary Beard tracks how travel trends have changed in the first of our summer series on tourism In September 1886, a letter...
Historian Eric Hobsbawm has seen his subject shed its conservatism. He says history is finally free to examine the totality of man's progression from caveman to controller of the internet age - and...
Rufus May believes his openness as a 'mad' psychologist helps his students break down barriers in mental health You could say that I have had two careers in psychiatry. The first was fairly short-...
The comforting certainties of what is natural are constantly being eroded. But we must keep our heads, argues Mary Warnock, and remember that as the brightest animal humans have a duty to modify...
Anthony Giddens is renowned for having furnished new Labour with the 'third way' but, asks Harriet Swain, will he leave a similar imprint on the London School of Economics when he retires next year?...
Your diarist attributed to me the words of Ian Gibson (Diary, THES , July 5). What I said in the debate on the research assessment exercise at Westminster Hall was that it had not been proper for the...
I have visited Israel many times and have always felt a deep attachment to the country. But I am filled with anger and despair at recent events there and in the occupied territories. It is essential...
The David Irving trial was not only about Holocaust denial and the nature of historical research, but also about fudging the truth. It also examined in detail the vexed question of how the subtle...
The government buys places at UK universities cheap and then feels entitled to demand more for its money ("Lecturers told to get real-world job skills", THES , July 5). But if the government uses...
Mike Hill, head of the Careers Services Unit, like the government, equates training with education. Vocational courses should be partnerships between universities and employers. The university...
To read that working in a fast-food restaurant will be "valuable experience" for a student made me wonder if this was a news item left over from April 1. My experience of factory work was valuable...
It was interesting to see the piece on institutionalised racism ("Too few black staff in FE", THES , July 5). But there is another form of internal discrimination: that operating against staff from...
Your front-page article ("The train on platform 1 is not posh enough...", THES , July 5) about the need for Universities UK to charter first-class carriages to transport vice-chancellors to...