A ground-breaking study into student performance has come up with new findings on why boys do better. Paul Surtees reports Ihave just learned that Gallimard wants to publish Lolita," Vladimir Nabokov...
Notable Britons must die before December 31 this year to be included in the New Dictionary of National Biography. Huw Richards talks to the book's editor, Brian Harrison, and explains (below) what it...
Is the vice-chancellor of the University of Teesside really as incapable of consecutive thought as the National Union of Students seems to be (Letters, THES, September 1)? How can any of them know...
While many people may be unthinkingly applying new technology to learning, this does not apply to all ("Beware geeks bearing modems", THES September 1). Many organisations with which I am working are...
Strathclyde may be bidding to be Europe's first "Thinkpad University", but it is not the first European university to "lap up" students (Enterprise, THES, September 8). Eindhoven University of...
If academics in London are to get much higher salaries (Soapbox, THES, September 1), then the costs of degrees in London should rise to reflect this. The effect of this would be to make much...
Sarah Fitzpatrick's claim that graduates earn substantially more than non-graduates over their lifetime needs revising in the light of the increasing numbers of mature students (Opinion, THES,...
I would like to clarify some issues raised in the Whistleblower article entitled "PlBan for instant degrees abandoned" (THES, July 14). The agreement with Oxford Brookes University will enable...
You have often used quotes from me as a stick with which to beat others who use oversimplified performance indicators. You should now apply this stick to yourself. The article "Student numbers...
Are universities that lower entry grades to fill places storing up trouble for the future? Dennis Smith thinks not As this year's admissions round draws to a close, anecdotal evidence is growing that...
Why does alcohol pose an acceptable risk while GM foods call for caution? It is all about trust and control, says Nick Pidgeon. Risk and the way people respond to and perceive risk has, over the past...
How can researchers best manage conflicts of interest? Nicholas Winterton of the MRC explores the issue. It is vital that those funding and undertaking research know what standards of professional...
Geoff Watts explains a quest to find bacteria with a taste for heroin. Humans have been giving thanks for opium for at least 3,000 years. Now, our oldest painkiller has attracted the attention of our...
A collection of 2,500 types of potato, many unique, faces ruin. Richard Rawles reports. In the 1930s, the Soviet plant geneticist Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov and his co-workers gathered a remarkable...
Astronomers have produced the deepest ground-based image of the sky, allowing them to probe galactic birth at an unprecedented scale. The team from the University of Durham used the Anglo-Dutch...