The fallacy of facts
It is all very well cramming students' heads full of facts but, argues Alison Utley, society and the world of work would be better served by teaching them how to think critically. As fields of...
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Computer programs can catch out copycat students but the smart internet plagiarist is still difficult to detect
You have 200 students in your year group. They are all connected to each other by email. They are all connected to the internet. They are all intelligent. How can you be sure that their intelligence...
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Star turn
Fashion industry wannabes give up the summer sun for a crash course with a professional designer, writes Jennifer Currie. Summer and school may be the last two words you would expect to hear an...
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Are we missing the mark?
Percentages? Grades? A mixture of the two? Paul Bridges wonders, is our marking system really fair? Is our marking fair? We would like to think so. We devote care to the design of assessments in...
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Helpline proves unhelpful
The 750,000 potential students who have called the government's Learning Direct telephone helpline have been given "out of date or incomplete" information, college leaders have warned. As little as a...
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Serb anger at UN's 'passivity'
The international community has failed to prevent Serbian academics and students from being "driven out of their homes and expelled from Kosovo", Jagos Zelenovic, rector of the Belgrade-backed Serb-...
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Visitor is unwelcome in law
The ancient visitor method of settling disputes between universities and students is in breach of Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, an academic lawyer has warned. Tim Birtwistle...
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High Court finally halts internet trade in fake degrees
An entrepreneur selling fake degree certificates on the internet has been hit with a High Court injunction, over two years after The THES exposed the controversial business, writes Phil Baty. The...
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Gaia: 'one tough bitch' of a theory
The Symbiotic Planet
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The final monster of the deep
The Search for the Giant Squid
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The Old One and me
Einstein and Religion
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Unbroken seal secrets
Indus Age
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, recalls an impoverished industrial area of the UK reinvented in the 1980s as a "heritage site": "The first...
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Higher channels
Tom Davies focuses on radio and television programmes that may be of use to THES readers. (All times pm unless stated.) FRIDAY September 3 Aberglasney: A Garden Lost in Time (7.30 BBC2). Part two of...
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Making a mark in the classroom
When Elaine Showalter decided to pass on 30 years of teaching experience to her graduate students she opened up a fraught and secret domain Everyone complains these days that we do not train graduate...