Close encounters with far pavilions
Orientalism
Orientalism
Vocational and academic. You might have thought we would have learned by now. But no. With the millennium fast approaching, these remain poles apart, like chalk and cheese. Worse still, there are few...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Annabel Patterson asks that in the often intemperate exchanges over political correctness we should not forget its real achievements. In 1580, Gabriel Harvey, lecturer in rhetoric at Cambridge,...
The 21 universities and further education colleges who are the winners of the Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education are the first beneficiaries of a scheme designed to find the...
Joseph Evans argues that more moral control would make university residence a home from home. If charity begins at home, then we should be thinking more about what sort of home we are offering young...
Hans Eysenck takes a look at new attempts to provide a more solid scientific basis for intelligence testing. IQ testing has been extremely successful on the practical level -- predicting academic...
Simon Targett talks to the irreverent historian of landscape and descendant of Lithuanian loggers, Simon Schama. Simon Schama never knew Sir Percy Winfield. The old Cambridge lawyer had been dead ten...
The Council for Industry and Higher Education publishes its advice to the Shephard review today. Patrick Coldstream summarises its report. More young people than ever before now believe that it is...
As fighting in the former Yugoslavia escalates, The THES asked leading academics the following questions: 1. What action do you think Britain and the UN should take next? 2. Is the present attitude...
Source: Alamy Simon Pratt takes a closer look at the elite graduate schools and specialists excluded from the World University RankingsUniversity rankings can have far-reaching influence, and a...
4 October 2012 Mixing substantial investments in research with top academics and strategic international collaborations is a healthy recipe that has helped a Singaporean institution grow quickly,...
Abdullah Atalar reveals the secrets of Bilkent's rapid advancement Bilkent University is a private not-for-profit research institution located in Ankara, the capital of Turkey, one of the world’s...
16 September 2010 Our six subject tables are now built on a sophisticated range of metrics, rather than opinion The US dominance of our overall top 200 ranking is reflected in our six subject tables...
Japan is the dominant force in the THE Asia University Rankings 2013, but the lead afforded over its East Asian neighbours by a 25-year head start is being rapidly eroded. Emerging triumphant in the...