Student Euro ID card mooted
Plans for a new student card to cover the whole of the European Union are being encouraged by MEPs. The card would give holders an officially recognised form of identification and access to a range...
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EU flagship project falters
Eureka, Europe's multimillion flagship programme for industrial research, faces "terminal decline" unless it is drastically restructured and academic researchers are given a bigger role on its...
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Premier-league pay
Re "The curse of high aspirations", THES, March 12, and "Hard times for dismal science", THES, March 26). If university lecturers' lives are to be as pressured as those of management trainees at IBM...
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Why I ...I believe Yorkshire should have its own parliament
Ed Gouge. Lecturer in local government at Leeds University. He was born in Kent and served as a member for Ilford of the Greater London Council until its abolition in 1986. England is officially a...
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Feet first into a fray
Academics must make sure their voice is heard about world events, Renee Hirschon urges Not long ago, at a farewell party for Barbara Harrell-Bond, an anthropologist and founder of the Refugee Studies...
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Partners for better not worse
The advantages of college franchises outweigh the disadvantages, argues Derek Portwood Franchising and collaborative programmes have become a nightmare for senior staff in further education colleges...
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Ancient Egyptian intrigues
The Murder of Tutankhamen - Nefertiti
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In Laban's footsteps
Rudolf Laban
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When longhairs hit Hollywood
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
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A lost nun and a closet extremist
Ideas Matter - Memoir - Mary Robinson
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A bloodied country, a state of mind
The Dragon in the Land of Snows
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work that takes its title from the old English word for oak: "The village lies folded away in one of...
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Red-star spangled
The Soviet World of American Communism
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100 years in the consumers' armchair
The Popular Magazine in Britain and the United States 1880-1960
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A passion for French lettres
The Word from Paris