Off-campus leaders who stay on the ball
Social science is about being healthy, wealthy and wise - at least on the evidence of the table below showing the top institutions for social-science citations outside the university sector. In a...
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'The LSE's even financial keel creates the right climate for excellence'
With 24 heads of government and 13 Nobel laureates among its alumni or staff, the London School of Economics and Political Science is a truly international university with a reputation for excellence...
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Old masters not alone in the arts landscape
In the Top 50, left, are the institutions our peer-review college regards as the best in the world at arts and humanities research. Uniquely among the data presented in this series, we do not show a...
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Nancy Rothwell
Twice. But I'd do it all again';Opinion Showing children the wonders of science is one of the toughest jobs around, but it is also vital and enjoyable I was delighted to hear that the television...
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Freedom (of information) fights
University spin doctors appear to be adopting a less-than-open approach to the Freedom of Information Act. One who had received a request for information from a person they suspected was a journalist...
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Nervy show hijacks protest
A large animal-rights protest outside Oxford University last weekend was somewhat thwarted by a band of eight patients who turned up to explain how animal research had helped them personally. Mike...
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In office, but not in the office
Manchester University's new leader, the straight-talking Alan Gilbert, is hard at work promoting his new-look university, travelling hither and yon to meet the great and the good. But perhaps his...
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Stress rises after PR denial
Wishful thinking was in evidence at De Montfort University after The Times Higher 's exclusive story about the level of stress among its staff. The university's PR man told the Bedfordshire on Sunday...
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Norman Stone: review
TURKS Royal Academy of Arts, London, until April 12. www.turks.org.uk "It mutilates you if you cannot read the language of your grandparents' tombs," says a Turkish friend. This applies not only to...
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Why I...kept quiet during the Oxford Animal Lab demonstration
"Is this it?" I thought, as I joined the animal-rights protesters outside Balliol College, Oxford, on Saturday. Yet another demonstration against the construction of a new animal laboratory was...
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The colour of the truth
Slavoj Zizek urges academics, who too easily use false terms like 'freedom', to reach for the red ink The Amish practise the tradition of rumspringa . At 18, their children, who have since birth been...
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'Missing' students are a myth
The Sutton Trust's sums on state school students at university do not add up, says Sam Freedman The Sutton Trust regularly argues that there are 3,000 state school students "missing" from leading...
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Today's news
Anger at BNP visit to St Andrews The leader of the British National Party has been invited to speak next Wednesday at St Andrews, where Prince William studies. Anti-racist groups condemned the...
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Laurie Taylor Column
" The Arts and Humanities Research Board is to produce a 'top ten list' of the most important journals in such subjects as media and cultural studies in a bid to establish new performance measures...
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Leader: The overlooked and the unpaid
The insecurity faced by contract researchers on fixed-term contracts in the UK has proved an intractable problem. For the past two weeks The Times Higher has highlighted both the number of...