Over the past year, academia mourned the loss of some of its most high-profile public figures. Harriet Swain asks publishers and agents who will fill their shoes and what is needed to make a scholar...
Ominous noises coming from the government are suggesting that the teaching and research link should be severed. That would be a big mistake, says Alan Jenkins. The 1963 Robbins report greeted an...
Data from US universities appear to show that higher tuition fees translate into better teaching provision, say Peter Andras and Bruce Charlton. The news is full of discussion concerning the cost and...
A dozen of The THES's contributors nominate their favourite books of last year. Helen Davies reports. Philip Anderson , Nobel laureate, professor of theoretical physics, Princeton University, US If I...
Plate Tectonics
Making Babies
Scanty Particulars - Bodies Politic
Seahenge
Epigraphic Evidence
Party People, Communist Lives
The Metaphysical Club
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a memoir by a pioneering woman pilot: "How is it possible to bring order out of memory?" The winner...
The Mona Baker affair has produced two victims and one casualty - but none carries the name "Baker". The victims are the two academics Baker dismissed from her editorial board because they are...
Oren Yiftachel's problem in submitting his research paper to the journal Political Geography ("Student unions reject academic boycott of Israel", THES , December 20/) illustrates the indiscriminate...
Why are the National Union of Students and the Socialist Worker Student Society so selective about whom they boycott? There are poorly treated nationals in many countries but we hear of no similar...