Change that shrinks a planet
World History - From Dawn to Decadence, 1500 to the Present
World History - From Dawn to Decadence, 1500 to the Present
Something New Under the Sun
The New Penguin History of Scotland
Imagining the King's Death - The Politics of Regicide in England, 1760-1850
The Full Monty
The Essential Edmund Leach
The Internet
Storyteller
BOOK OF THE YEAR Academics select the books that have most influenced their thinking during the past 12 months. Mike Redbreast (short-term contract lecturer in biology at the University of Uttoxeter...
I hope it will assist the academic figures whose integrity and intellectual freedom have been under attack ("If no rules have been broken, perhaps the rulebook requires some attention", THES ,...
The government wants cutting-edge research so that the United Kingdom stays in the top rank. It promotes the research assessment exercise and qua-lity gets better. Then the higher education minister...
You say that universities asked to concentrate on teaching, as opposed to research, will be "demoralised and angry losers" (Opinion, THES , November 23). Why so? I think we could gain more...
Contrary to your editorial "Free researchers from hand that feeds them" (Opinion, THES , November 23), the Economic and Social Research Council invests substantially in blue-skies research in funded...
An anonymous student support officer argues in "How to ignite bright sparks" ( THES , November 30) that there may be dangerous, if unintended, consequences of targeting pupils at an early age deemed...