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First impressions
This week we are starting a new competition. Where Final Word gave the coda to well-known books, First Impressions, as the name suggests, will give the opening lines. The following introduction is...
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The Darwin impresario
Marxism's decline has been followed by a link up between evolutionary biology and social science which should produce startling insights into human behaviour, argue John Ashworth and Helena Cronin....
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Grants
Nottingham Trent University. Professor A. Cobb and the department of life science, Pounds 112,000 from the 糖心Vlog Grown Cereals Authority (three-year assessment of potential risks to crops and...
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The THES - don't leave home without it
Despite his years of exile, years of eternal opposition promises and everlasting government cuts, one thing has remained a constantin Ged Martin's academic life... The scene is the staff common room...
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Times past, times future, Times Higher
The THES has had three editors in its 25-year history. The first, Brian MacArthur, recalls launching the paper with seven staff and not a marketing man in sight. His successor, Peter Scott, remembers...
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Adding an annexe to the ivory towers
When The THES came into the world, the UK taught 446,000 students in a higher education sector that included 45 universities. Now there are 1.5 million students and 105 universities. Michael Shattock...
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Those 1,300 weeks in brief
1971 First issue of THES October 15 Bristol planning to introduce two-year pass degrees Margaret Thatcher, secretary of state for education and science, trying to reform student unions South Bank...
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The ism that spawned a momentary glee
If universities have changed enormously in the past quarter century, so too have the ideas that are taught in them. Peter Aspden considers academia's flirtation with postmodernism. It was a word that...
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Redecorating Britain in a deep shade of blue
If universities have changed enormously in the past quarter century, so too have the ideas that are taught in them. Richard Cockett assesses the influence of the new right. The year 1971 was a...
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Mapmakers chase $1 prize
If universities have changed enormously in the past quarter century, so too have the ideas that are taught in them. Jon Turney looks at the extraordinary advances in genetics. The pace of advance in...
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Some stories just run and run...
Huw Richards sifts through the news that has filled our pages and reaches a remarkable conclusion. Plus ca change ... The appearance is admittedly different. Where today's THES readers are confronted...
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I audit, therefore I am
If universities have changed enormously in the past quarter century, so too have the ideas that are taught in them. Michael Power ruefully concludes that we all now live in the age of the audit. It...
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'I've seen the future, and it goes beep, beep, beep'
If universities have changed enormously in the past quarter century, so too have the ideas that are taught in them. Jack Meadows examines the IT revolution. The information revolution of the past...
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Appointments
Economic and Social Research Council Appointments to the ESRC board: James Sharples, president of the Association of Chief Police Officers and chief constable of Merseyside Police, he is also county...