Research published this week claims that neither the 1992 reform that turned the polytechnics into universities, nor the Dearing report five years later, really changed the face of English higher...
As historians gather to debate history and the media, Huw Richards looks at TV history and Peter Hennessey considers the press's recording of events History was not always like this. As television...
As historians gather to debate history and the media, Huw Richards looks at TV history and Peter Hennessey considers the press's recording of events. If the Sermon on the Mount had been a government...
Huw Richards hears Dubya is nobody's fool and reports on a growing interest. "George W. Bush is represented here as a bumbling idiot. He has bumbled, but he is no idiot." By "here" John Owens of the...
If young people really are uninterested in politics, they have a funny way of showing it. The latest figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service show applications to read politics...
A 450-year chronicle-in-progress of the British parliamentary system gives a unique insight into every MP's life. Huw Richards reports There were reports of "violent doings at Bridgnorth, both...
Claire Sanders looks at why Chinese studies is struggling in the UK when China is booming. Oxford University's appointment of Cornell professor Vivienne Shue as its first professor of contemporary...
Paul FitzPatrick reports from Asia on a hunger for MBAs. When people talk about "unleashing creativity" or "becoming emotionally literate", the People's Liberation Army may not spring to mind. But...
Students are using text messaging to cheat in exams and copying from the internet for coursework. Chris Bunting reports on how institutions are dealing with the issue. A student in a final...
So nearly a quarter of postgraduates feel that a PhD in the arts and humanities has failed to fulfil their career aspirations (News, THES , December 6)? Is the bottle half full or half empty? More...
Alison Richard will not be Cambridge's first female vice-chancellor ("Steely veteran with a cold eye on the bottom line", THES , December 6). Dame Rosemary Murray holds that distinction (1975-77)....
I read half the report on sports minister Richard Caborn's criticism of elitism in sports science ("Coaches slated for failing the team", THES , November 29) as I walked to lecture sports-science...
Sports scientists' defensiveness about their intellectual credentials is clear from your accusation that my department is undermining sport psychology's academic profile by introducing a joint...
Chris Cooper (Letters, THES , December 6) tells us that he teaches and researches in pure biochemistry. I am sure we would all like to know what "pure biochemistry" is. Could there be an "impure...
We are writing in support of Mona Baker, who is under investigation by the University of Manchester Institute for Science and Technology for removing two Israeli members from the editorial board of a...