Town-gown relations have been a delicate area for generations, originally because the student elite feared for its safety at the hands of resentful locals. But, as the series beginning on page 6...
Roxanne Euben relates how Sayyid Qutb's traumatic time at college contributed to the manifesto that inspires today's Islamic terrorists. Weakened by torture, illness and almost ten years of...
Not everyone is enriched by US higher education. Alston Chase reveals how Theodore Kaczynski's brutal experiences at Harvard helped turn him into the Unabomber. Last spring, an article appeared in...
The conference experience is being turned on its head by electronic technology. Paul Shabajee joins the wireless chat that is unnerving speakers. The keynote speaker was clear. He informed his...
Opponents of war in Iraq used The Lord of the Rings to mock George Bush. Martin Barker will use the film to study other cultural takes on fantasy and to test whether Hollywood is colonising the world...
Seeking inspiration for her latest historical novel, Margaret Elphinstone abandoned the library for Canada's wild waterways. Olga Wojtas hears about her voyage. Mark Greenhow, the narrator of...
English needs a dose of Gradgrind to release it from the free-for-all of critical 'isms', argues Jonathan Bate. When I started out as a student of English literature in the 1970s, opinion seemed to...
The corner-cutting culture in universities is not the only cause of student plagiarism (Letter, THES, July 25). At Easter, I marked about 60 non-assessed essays by first-year law students. Only six...
Neither academics nor the internet can be blamed so easily for student plagiarism. The internet may provide some students with a "quick fix" but it also assists tutors in locating and penalising...
Frank Furedi describes departmental meetings deliberating about a simple example of plagiarism - "an essay containing five paragraphs of copied material". Like the "dirty dossier", this is obviously...
Frank Furedi is right. If academics and the institutions in which they work treat knowledge as a commodity, why shouldn't students do the same? When "getting through" is all that matters, what...
British Library requests are not dealt with on a first-come, first-served basis as Natalie Ceeney, director of operations and services, writes (Letters, THES, July 25). I have a letter from the BL...
To use the Open University as "evidence" that teaching and research need not be linked is to misunderstand how the OU works ("Role split is an attack on identity", THES, July 25). The OU operates a...
The content of what teachers teach is in danger of being lost in the flak of the research-teaching debate (Letters, THES, July 25). In a general climate of dumbing down, overemphasis on content-free...
Michael Reiss is right that classic social science research can discover more about biotechnology's impact on society ("Science review uncovers GM angst", THES, July 25). The London School of...