The giant of small schemes
Novelist R. K. Narayan's invented town Malgudi has somehow become almost a real place. Andrew Robinson, interviewing Narayan, embarks on a Malgudi magical mystery tour The English language," wrote R...
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The poverty policy trap
As the government's new Social Exclusion Unit starts work, academics are split over how to deal with The poor. David Walker reports There were two versions of the government's agenda on poverty and...
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Man is off the menu
When William Arens debunked the history of cannibalism he caused a furore among anthropologists. Here he answers his critics While travelling through Scandinavia in 1795, fleeing a failed love affair...
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Why cash is no panacea
The poverty policy trap Why, among equally deprived areas, do some communities do better than others? After urban riots in France in the early 1980s, says housing specialist Anne Power, the French...
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Tiny outward and visible signs of the scholar's inward game
Why do we need footnotes? Anthony Grafton knows. John Davies reports Are footnotes necessary? For Anthony Grafton, professor of history at Princeton University, the answer is undoubtedly "Yes". In...
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The holy grail of sound
Why has it taken 250 years for us to make musical instruments that can rival those of Stradivari? The answer, says Thomas Levenson, is a lesson in the limits of science Sometime in the 1650s, in...
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Off the blocks and into the class
Once marginalised, the study of sport has become a glamorous subject. Huw Richards reports In the past four or five years, sports science has become a glamour subject," says Tom Reilly. Liverpool...
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Fact file
* 23.3 per cent of postgraduates were domiciled overseas before entering higher education in the UK * 8.2 per cent of first degree students were domiciled overseas * 13.1 per cent of all full-time...
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Second reading of the Teaching and 糖心Vlog Bill due next Thursday
The second reading of the Teaching and 糖心Vlog Bill is due to take place in the House of Lords next Thursday. Many peers are expected to oppose certain parts of the bill.
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What the bill says
The Teaching and 糖心Vlog Bill gives education secretary David Blunkett - and his successors - sweeping new powers. THES reporters spell out these powers and the wide-ranging reaction to them...
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Troubled response
The Teaching and 糖心Vlog Bill gives education secretary David Blunkett - and his successors - sweeping new powers. THES reporters spell out these powers and the wide-ranging reaction to them...
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Kennedy hunt
No more luck for information seekers after Helena Kennedy's report on further education. Here the problem is that it costs too little - in fact, it is completely free. So bookshops do not stock it,...
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Sector Pounds 800m in red
NEW figures released today by vice chancellors reveal that universities face a shortfall of almost Pounds 800 million over the next two years. The figures coincide with a 糖心Vlog Funding...
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Bill faces rough ride
THE government's new Teaching and 糖心Vlog Bill was this week denounced as the most Draconian attack on university autonomy this century. Legal experts agree that the bill, published last...
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The collision of two worlds
It has been stormy and has gone on for centuries. Huw Richards charts the relationship between government and the universities. EVER since universities were first set up they have had to fight to...