A touch of moonshine
Len Fisher repeats a common tale - that the Astronomer Royal pronounced that "space travel is bunk" a few weeks before Sputnik 1 was launched (Features, October 29). However, this "quote" has not...
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Levelling the field 1
Alison Wolf's argument for the introduction of an SAT-type test was persuasive (Opinion, October 22). Selecting on the basis of A levels alone does not always ensure the brightest students get to the...
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Levelling the field 2
One point that Alan Ryan might have made (Opinion, October 29) is that it is unsurprising that the Government denies that it intends to insist that universities meet their benchmarks. As benchmarks...
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It's down to faith 1
"The question is whether God is more probable than Russell's teapot. There may be good reasons to say yes. If so, they will be scientific ones. Let's hear them," says Richard Dawkins (Soapbox,...
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It's down to faith 2
Richard Dawkins is wrong in saying that the 19th century saw the triumph of science over religion. The battle rattled on into the 20th century and was more an armistice: a tacit agreement about where...
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Independent thinking
It was nice to see the department of economic and social history at Glasgow University mentioned in Peter Wardley's review of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (Books, October 29). We are...
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World University Rankings 2004
 World University Rankings Published in The Times Higher on 5 November 2004 A first attempt to compare universities around the globe Editorial: Top performers on the global stage take a bow  ...
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Crossing the line: stories on mapping the maze
Heather Leach argues against narrative flow in the essay that won the Palgrave Macmillan/ Times Higher humanities and social sciences writing prize. Last year I was 60 - a threshold. I tilt my head...
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It's not just black and white any more
The experience of African-American studies has lessons for the UK despite debates about its aims and direction, Stephen Phillips finds in the last of our series on black academics. In 2001, Harvard...
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Get real if you want to hook them on history
Is 'Big Brother in costume' bringing the past alive? Laurie Taylor listens in at a conference on history and the media It didn't take long for my cover to be blown at the Imperial War Museum. I'd...
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The art attacks heat up in war on propaganda
A new exhibition examines the War on Terror in ways that the mainstream media do not, says Christopher Wood. Two opposing opinions are sometimes voiced about the conditions necessary for art to...
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Editorial: Top performers on the global stage take a bow
Students, academics and companies placing research contracts all need to know which are the best universities in the world. And the measures used to identify them are crucial, explains John O'Leary....
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Elements that paint a portrait of global powers
The Times Higher 's analysis of the world's top universities shows that quality is not the preserve of any single country. Martin Ince explains how the positions were worked out. The first lesson of...
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Intellectual cream rises to the top
Harvard enjoys an embarrassment of riches - the nation's best students, the world's elite scholars and a vast endowment - but it is not without its critics, Jon Marcus discovers There is a statue at...
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Wealthy set to challenge US while others languish
An EU research area is fast becoming a reality, but Europe's North-South divide lives on, argues Martin Ince. This analysis of Europe's top 50 universities might suggest that the English language is...