Today's top-up fees survey is far from complete, but it gives a much fuller picture than might have been expected of institutions' opening positions in the coming higher education market. It...
Fear of terrorism is fuelling a campaign of hate in the US, writes Hamid Dabashi. Late in June 2002, I came back to New York from a fortnight's trip to Japan to find my voicemail flooded with racist...
Fear of terrorism is fuelling a campaign of hate in the US, writes Hamid Dabashi. Late in June 2002, I came back to New York from a fortnight's trip to Japan to find my voicemail flooded with racist...
David Newman reports on the rise of Israeli McCarthism. Israel is this year commemorating 30 years since the October 1973 Yom Kippur war. Each of the country's five universities has conferences on...
Now even the Americans are anti-American, explains Bill Durodie. As shocking to Americans as the events of September 11 2001 was the worldwide wave of anti-American sentiment that followed. By...
The ubiquitous university counselling services cast students as fragile creatures unable to cope with the normal pressures of life, and in doing so undermine the mental health of the people they aim...
The three British academics who won Nobels last week gained wide public acclaim, but will their institutions and UKscience in general benefit too? asks Anna Fazackerley. For much of last week, the...
Now even the Americans are anti-American, explains Bill Durodie. As shocking to Americans as the events of September 11 2001 was the worldwide wave of anti-American sentiment that followed. By...
The ubiquitous university counselling services cast students as fragile creatures unable to cope with the normal pressures of life, and in doing so undermine the mental health of the people they aim...
The three British academics who won Nobels last week gained wide public acclaim, but will their institutions and UKscience in general benefit too? asks Anna Fazackerley. For much of last week, the...
Even if 9/11 was the catalyst that finally precipitated Terry Eagleton's return to earth from the realms of High Theory ("Bin Laden sure didn't read any beer mats", THES , October 3), he does not...
I was struck by Daniel Pipes' assertion that "Reformists reinterpret Islam to make it compatible with western ways. They have worked to transform the idea of jihad into a purely defensive undertaking...
As author of the Liberal Democrat proposals on higher education, I take issue with your leading article ("Sour notes lost in political noise", October 3). The Liberal Democrats are committed to...
Ian Gibson ("Read our lips: top-up fees simply won't work", THES , October 10) complained about the lack of discussion about top-up fees at the Labour Party conference. Yet his article digressed in...
I have a masters degree in Middle East Studies and am working towards a PhD in the area of Islamic studies. So when I saw the headline in your October 10 issue, "Employability: Middle East studies...