The life and soul of social scenes
Peter Cox enters a world where kindness and imagination are king. The foreword to this book about Michael Young has a neat, ironic title: "Who? which? where? why?". Lord Young of Dartington has had...
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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 feminist double-act: "Is a pen a metaphorical penis?" The winner receives a £25 Blackwell's voucher...
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Aspirant v-cs take note and listen to your buildings
University Architecture - University Builders
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Crusader tries to awaken Japan
Japan's Past, Japan's Future
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Don't know what to buy your bishop for Xmas?
Christianity - Christ - Doubts and Loves
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Can a man and woman share a horse?
Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought
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Parasite of airy nothings?
Religion Explained
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The end of a civil and spiritual marriage
A History of the English Parish
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Getting to know the local lama
Asian Commitment
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Laurie Taylor column
" The three largest universities in Tuscany have joined forces to set up a 'wine university' " - THES , December 7. From: Dr Piercemüller Dear Professor Augusto Marinelli Allow me to introduce myself...
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RAE league tables 2001
British university research is the best since records began, according to the outcome of this year’s research assessment exercise.More than 25,000 staff are celebrating the news that they are based...
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Leader: Researchers rise to the challenge of excellence
The research assessment exercise results published today are a triumph - and a disaster. They are a triumph because they demonstrate the increasing excellence of research in United Kingdom...
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Letter: In brief 4
Your caption states that the bike Jan Evans-Freeman sits astride is a Honda CBR600 when it is a CBR900 (News, THES , November 2). Graeme Barnett Analyst/programmer Northumbria University
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Letter: Some paradoxes of participation 1
Natfhe's Tom Wilson (Letters, THES , December 7) makes a big mistake in supposing that allowing any new university to "go to the wall" would be "disastrous" for participation. There is nothing...
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Letter: Some paradoxes of participation 2
With a large part of higher education still reeling from the fees bomb dropped by the Institute for Public Policy Research ("£2,000 fees on Blair's agenda", THES , December 7), we can only wonder how...