Business boost for China poor
A company president who suffered hardship is helping impoverished students. China's largest-ever scholarship fund for university students has been established in Beijing following a 10 million yuan (...
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Cash controversy
Students have condemned Cambridge University's decision to accept a Pounds 1.5 million donation from tobacco company BAT Industries. In a ballot of 1,711 academics, 1,128 voted in favour of accepting...
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Have cash, but can't spend it
Universities could be heaping up a multi-million pound "cash mountain" because funding regulations put them off spending the money, a leading vice chancellor warned this week. Big financial reserves...
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Head to head
(Photograph) - Head to head: Russell Bates, a student at Exeter University, admires the Henry Moore sculpture, "Reclining Collected Forms", which has gone on show at the university. The work, created...
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Students ponder Euro appeal
A group of students and former students expelled from their union by London's South Bank University are deciding whether to fight the institution in the European Court. Four students are considering...
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Genes means coming clean
If you want a quiet life, do not do research into the genetics of behaviour. If you do, be prepared to participate in the noisy life that will follow. The same rule applies to the funders of such...
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For all creatures great and small
As Roger Scruton argues that animals are "insensible", I cannot comprehend his statement that hounds and horses also experience "pleasure" in tearing a fox to pieces. Or is Professor Scruton...
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Chipping away at the glass ceiling
As a book and university league table today reveal the extent of discrimination against women academics, we focus on two new professors and their fight for recognition - Gillian Morriss-Kay (below...
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Internet news
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features, reviews and advertisements in the newspaper, plus a full list of institutions in British further and higher...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an author who trained as a doctor and, in this instance, was inspired by an artist: "A quotation from the Bible came to my lips, but I held by tongue, for I know...
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Speaking Volumes: A History of English Literature
K. K. AZIZ on E. Legouis and L. Cazamian's A History of English Literature . What a series of coincidences! A History of English Literature by Emile Legouis (1861-1937) and Louis Cazamian (1877-1965...
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A solo voyage to vast horizons
An Empire for Liberty
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Agony and the ecstasy
Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure?
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Conflicts of self-interest
In the Shadow of War
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Fluent Flemings flummox xenophobes
Chasing the Sun