The learning landscape will be refashioned by technology to deliver much more "just-in-time" knowledge, delegates at the 20th world conference on open and distance education heard. Lecturers standing...
Academics need to take stock of their role and support public interest in history, writes Simon Ditchfield. There is nothing like a good crisis to concentrate the mind. The closure of Luton...
Imperial College is making a bid for degree-awarding status, which would allow it to award degrees independently of the University of London. The college says it wants the powers in place as a...
Birmingham University is set to win a multimillion pound government research grant even though it has failed to meet the strict conditions under which the money was originally earmarked. It was...
There has been an air of pessimism surrounding English cricket since England conceded the Ashes 12 years ago. But when Australia begins its Ashes tour in June, fans should be reassured that a new...
London students are being urged to vote for MPs who support their interests - and to use their collective muscle against the rest. A new guide published by the University of London Union lists the...
Attempts to launch a rival to the Institute for Learning and Teaching are a mistake, argues Brian Smith. The Association of University Teachers could be taking a huge risk by pressing ahead with...
As academics struggle to perform for quality assessments, Rebecca Boden is concerned about the 'creeping cancer of managerialism'. Successive corporate scandals in the late 1980s ensured that...
The email was unambiguous: "As opponent, your role is to summarise the dissertation, interrogate the candidate I and then sum up the strengths and weaknesses." The invitation might have added, "Iin...
The ribosome, nature's ultimate nanotechnologist, is now starting to surrender its secrets. Giselle Weiss reports. Researchers have announced the latest in a series of spectacular developments...
The art of cheesemaking emerged from the need to preserve surplus milk. It has now evolved into a multidisciplinary, scientific and technological fermentation industry. The quality and commercial...
Men and women use different parts of their brains when forming emotionally charged memories, a new study has shown. In two rounds of tests involving horror movie clips, 11 men and 11 women had their...
It is one of the most notorious predictions in history, yet a new study challenges the tradition that Julius Caesar was give a month's notice to "Beware the Ides of March". Analysis of contemporary...
When students assess one another's practical work, they gain insight into the material while staff gain time, argues Ian Hughes. Practical work is a key part of degree courses in biological sciences...
Last week in The THES ... Maurice Saatchi argued for a reduction in taxation. Perhaps Maurice Saatchi would be well advised to talk to his Conservative colleague David Willetts, who, among others,...