Nerves have been tested in Canadian distance learning, says Philip Fine Private-sector instability and government priorities have put a dent in some Canadian e-learning plans this year but the sector...
Informal chatrooms are aiding professional development in nursing. Peter Murray reports Late one evening, worried about what she had seen in the ward she was working on, a nurse sat at her computer...
"How has having a monarchy influenced your sense of national identity? What would your country be like without a monarchy?" The THES is collaborating with openDemocracy.net for a special report on...
The education that produced the overeducated, unhappy, lonely Bridget Jones generation of women must be rethought, James Tooley (above) tells Jennifer Wallace, and girls should be steered on an...
Will it deliver designer babies to the wealthy or eradicate disease among the poor? Stephen Phillips ponders biotechnology's potential to shape our future, Francis Fukuyama (below, left) urges...
Will it deliver designer babies to the wealthy or eradicate disease among the poor? Stephen Phillips ponders biotechnology's potential to shape our future, Francis Fukuyama (below, left) urges...
Will it deliver designer babies to the wealthy or eradicate disease among the poor? Stephen Phillips ponders biotechnology's potential to shape our future, Francis Fukuyama (below, left) urges...
Oil is not only the lifeblood of the global economy, it is the source of international tensions, and these can only increase as finite reserves dwindle, writes Colin Campbell. The Middle East is...
The desire to understand the events of 9/11 has been a commercial boon for scholarly works from specialist presses, writes Karen Gold. In the summer of 2001, when New York's twin towers seemed to...
Plus no social life, unpaid preparation and nightmares. John Brogan reveals the grim reality of a visiting lecturer's life. Â At secondary school, the mere mention of James Watt and his separate...
In the fourth of our Pushing 50 series on the promises and prob-lems of a mass higher education system, Harriet Swain looks at how staff shortages could upset the drive to widen access. There are two...
This supplement was published with The Times Higher on May 17 2002 in conjunction with World Education Market  (Lisbon, Portugal: May 21-24, 2002). Digital deprivation  Whatever technology's...
The "richness and diversity" of Welsh writing, in Welsh and in English, may be "little recognised in England" ("Free Welsh voices to sing", THES, April 26), but it gets attention abroad. There are...
Low pay may be causing a staff recruitment crisis (News, THES, May 10), but there is a more disturbing trend. My research students are increasingly abandoning the notion of pursuing a career in the...
Those at last week's Association of University Teachers national delegates meeting heard an astonishing speech from the minister for lifelong learning and higher education. After stating that higher...