League tables are always controversial in any branch of education, especially when there is a change of methodology. The inclusion in this week's rankings of new categories of graduate jobs will be...
Richard Pipes revealed a mild-mannered US maths professor as a former Russian revolutionary who betrayed his comrades then killed his boss In the autumn of 1897, a recent Johns Hopkins University PhD...
Elite universities were fertile ground for recruiters to the communist cause in the 1930s. But, asks Phil Baty, did the Soviets ever manage to establish a spy ring in Oxford that came close to the...
In North Korea, students and academics struggle with limited resources, hunger, cold and the demands of a totalitarian state. But, says Jim Hoare, many remain curious and upbeat. Conventional...
Whereas women today worry about feeling sexy enough, their Victorian sisters were warned against 'wanton feelings' and doctors treated the clitoris as 'the source of evil'. Linda Vergnani reports....
By subjecting the Bible to the academic rigour that has made him one of the UK's leading materials scientists, Colin Humphreys replotted the route of Exodus. He tells Harriet Swain what happens when...
Economics is not as depressing as Alan Shipman makes out ("Dismal return of micro-men", THES, May 2). He argues that economics is too narrow and weighed down by mathematics and statistics. As someone...
Alan Shipman's attack on "mainstream" economics is outdated, misguided and wrong. If the nature of the discipline is causing a decline in take-up at A or PhD level, how does Shipman explain the...
The report "Forensic courses cut open for analysis" ( THES, May 2) gives the impression that forensic science courses have arisen as a result of failing chemistry/physics provision rather than...
Presumably, there were reality checks elsewhere in the Oxford Student Union report on college provision and wealth ("Oxford inequalities exposed", THES, May 2). Here are three that were not...
Panel chairs are right to complain ("RAE chairs: 'we'll pull out", Letters, THES, May 2) about the injustice of the invention of a 5** grade in the research assessment exercise and its possible...
The accompanying photograph to "Virtual jogging good for mind" (Findings, THES, April 25) shows again that beautiful young women exercise. But, as my own feeble exercise adherence demonstrates, even...
Your leader ("'Grey-goo' scare stories don't merit new regime", THES, May 2) states that, while technology can have unintended consequences, this does not mean that Prince Charles is right that...
The summary of the Institute of Directors' submission to the Treasury-initiated Lambert review ("Business bid to steer courses", THES, April 25) states "that universities should make more use of the...
One little-noticed passage in the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England's strategic plan warns of "a mismatch between the government's priorities, the views of key stakeholders and our core...