Oz gets tough on study visa
Following a huge increase in the number of foreign students seeking to enrol in Australian education institutions, the federal government last week adopted tighter visa regulations. During the past...
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The Nobel and the not nearly so Nobel
As 250 living Nobel laureates prepare to celebrate the centenary of the prize, Joseph Rotblat looks at key omissions in its controversial history. This year, the first of the third millennium, is the...
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The power of a sport to charm a prostitute's son and make playing nations blind to colour
The Picador Book of Cricket - Cricket and Race
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Dolly, Polly and boys from Brazil
When Dolly the sheep was born, journalists from around the world focused their attention on her and two human researchers from the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh in Scotland. Dolly was the first...
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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 concerns two women writers and a dog: "It is universally admitted that the family from...
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Giving us an earthly chance
The Ingenuity Gap
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Screening for pure literature
Book to Screen
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Laurie Taylor column
From: The office of the vice-chancellor To: All members of academic staff Some members of staff have apparently expressed concern about the showing of this university in the recent THES survey of the...
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Letter: Market forces
Jonathan Rutherford's comments on the increasing marketisation of education and the tension between the "goods and services" offered ("Let the corporate class commence", THES , July 13) should...
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Letter: Bewitching blue
George Ritzer has a point ("Let's make it magical", THES , July 6). Having lectured at Cambridge University for the past two years, I have often felt as if I am already working in a gigantic theme...
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Letter: ILT 'vapid and costly'
Is it any wonder the Institute for Learning and Teaching is "growing rapidly" ("Ready for take-off", THES , July 13) when a number of heads of departments and vice-chancellors are "advising" staff to...
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Letter: Yale - Celebrate with unionisation
Yale University in the United States is facing a major confrontation with its graduate teaching assistants and workers at its teaching hospital over union representation as it celebrates its 300th...
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Letter: Reserve reservations (1)
As principal of one of the institutions appearing near the top of some financial indicators and at the bottom of others, it might be helpful if I make some comments on aspects of your otherwise very...
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Letter: Reserve reservations (2)
You express gratitude that at least we have two institutions with enough money to compete globally. But you forget that several of the institutions high up in your wealth league table belong to an...