First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work that has nothing to do with GM foods: " You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has...
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Higher Channels
John Davies scans the schedules (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week Television programmes about musical history are rare, so despite its title, let us welcome Howard Goodall's Big Bangs (...
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When he's bard, he's pretty bard
Trendy academic attitudes to studying Shakespeare incense Frank Kermode. He tells Nick Groom why he's on the attack King's College, Cambridge, and the shadows are lengthening. In a tall little room...
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Sales are slow, but it supports my studies
All Big Issue sellers aren't 'down and out'. Alan Thomson reports on how universities are enrolling the homeless on degree courses Big Issue seller Alton Williams is tired, hungry and cold. Sales are...
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Wanted: cult of personality
Nigel Hamilton thinks it's a national scandal there are no degrees in biography. Universities, he argues, should study why biographies are now about people's private lives It's nobody's business but...
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Time...the final frontier
Time travel is more than mere fantasy. Some scientists believe it is theoretically possible. Physicist Paul Davies reports In a modest museum beside Waterloo Bridge in London stands an old-fashioned...
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I am not a number (of genes), I am an individual
Bad genetics and bad evolutionary psychology make for a dangerous cocktail, says Gabby Dover Dear Mr Darwin, I've been stimulated to write to you again. You might recall how I suggested that our...
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Looking at life funny side up
Are cartoons worthy of academic study? asks Jennifer Currie Studies of Andy Capp and saucy seaside postcards are more than just objects of amusement, says Nick Hiley. "They are worthy of serious...
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Early booking
The American Academy of Pediatrics has signed an agreement with e-book developer Everybook that will give the academy's members and subscribers access to electronic publication of the medical journal...
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Does the research assessment exercise discriminate against women?
Does the research assessment exercise discriminate against women? Email soapbox@thes.co.uk
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Report uncovers HE bribes system
TBILISI Widespread corruption is one of the biggest obstacles to reform in Georgia, according to a World Bank report on university education in the former Soviet republic. A survey carried out at...
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World watch
The Autonomous University of Barcelona, not the University of Barcelona, topped a table of Spanish universities published by the Gazeta Universitaria (THES, January 28). The University of Barcelona...
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English 'crucial' in Japan
TOKYO A report from a high-ranking advisory group suggests that Japanese higher education would benefit from the employment of more foreign lecturers. The deregulation of higher education, greater...
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Foreign students surge into Australia
MELBOURNE Enrolments of foreign students in Australian universities are expected to exceed all records in 2000, partly as a result of a substantial growth in new markets. More than 100,000 fee-paying...
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Ontario in dock for pocketing undergraduate funds
MONTREAL Three Ontario students have returned cheques from a Canadian grant programme, claiming their provincial government is pocketing funds intended to ease their debt. More students may soon join...