Like last week's spending review, this week's science white paper, Excellence and Opportunity, builds on a position that is already enviable by world standards. The UK is disproportionately good at...
Further education faces an even tougher task than higher education in meeting government targets for overseas student recruitment (page 4). The targets are ambitious and achieving them will depend on...
'Academic diplomacy' can succeed in nurturing trust between nations where politicians fail, says Benjamin Ladner After a long day of discussions with North Korean government leaders and professors...
It is sad, if not surprising, that Natfhe has decided to break ranks with the Association of University Teachers and sign the employers' code of practice that legitimises the growth of casualised...
National bargaining is not "close to collapse". On the contrary all higher education unions last month successfully negotiated an agreement on equal opportunities with the employers' association....
The guide to good practice in fixed-term and casual employment is advice from the employers' association to its members, but it binds them to nothing. It is all about managing, not reducing, casual...
The UCEA proposals are twofold. First, they suggest employers should support the requirements of employment legislation - this is good news. Second, they attempt to put a seal of approval on the near...
Norman Finkelstein is right to claim that there exists a thriving Holocaust industry ("Shaking down the Swiss", THES, July 21). A few years ago, when I was teaching in the United States, a colleague...
I was surprised to read that the head of Surrey University's management school was "in Mauritius with his wife on a trip paid for by the universityI carrying out several important duties. His wife's...
In his report of internet plagiarism, Frank Furedi (Soapbox, THES, July 14) rightly highlights possible solutions. By contrast, another report ("Copycats roam in era of the net") deals with it as a...
The proposed foundation degree embodies part of the government's vision of getting half the population through "higher" education by 30. Many people question where these students will come from, if...
It is a bit rich of Herbert Gintis to warn about "a generation of leftist intellectuals" (Letters, THES, July 21). Has he abandoned his intellectual and political past? Is there to be no more Marxist...
Laser scanners, electronic gadgets, nuclear weapons - we owe it all to quantum mechanics. John C. Baez looks at highlights from the London applied maths conference Like many others attending the 13th...
How would you define your discipline? A team at Loughborough has devised a formula that gets to the heart of the subject How can a discipline be defined? In looking for the answer, we considered a...
Arthur Jaffe takes an energetic look at what makes mathematical physics the queen bee of science Isaac Newton put mathematical physics on the map. Ever since, British scientists have played a pivotal...