If the government set out to create a set of proposals that would divide the academic community, it could hardly improve on yesterday’s higher education white paper. For every researcher who approves...
Palestinian students are struggling to complete studies as financial support falters. Alex Klaushofer reports. As Israelis prepare to go to the polls, The THES looks at the impact of conflict on...
Israeli students believe that many Britons fail to understand the complexities of the Middle East crisis, reports Chris Bunting. For Uri Enoch, the most depressing thing about Israel's general...
The Third Reich has been rehashed and repackaged so many times that some are starting to think Britons have an unhealthy fascination with it. But, says Huw Richards, experts believe there is still...
He's spent 25 years on the battlefield, but the closest that historian Brigadier Richard Holmes has ever come to live action is on TV, says Adrian Mourby. Richard Holmes arrives at his club in St...
The Taliban is out and western aid agencies have flooded in. But are they there to help Afghans or to pursue their own homegrown agendas? Leonard Stone reports. The 8.30am flight from Dubai to Kabul...
Barnacles are undergoing sex reversal, male birds are taking over female nest-sitting duties, the male-to-female ratio in alligators is skewed and even humanity is experiencing changes. Martin Ince...
Mandy Garner talks to a man eager to revive Afghan music. John Baily has been working on Afghan music for 30 years but his last visit to Afghanistan was 25 years ago when he and his wife, Veronica...
When push comes to shove, the emotional area of our brain often overrules the rational in moral dilemmas. Geoff Watts reports. When moral philosophers explain how they might act if faced with a...
We were interested to read that the Fair Enough? report recommends using criteria other than just A-level results to identify those likely to succeed at undergraduate level ("Don't rely on just A-...
Your report on the new brand identity of "Imperial College London" (Diary, THES , January 17) followed close on the heels of its abortive merger with University College London. Years ago, I led a...
In "The Great Fee Debate" ("How deep must students dig?" THES , January 10), Tony Blair's exclusion of employers/business as sources of additional funding for higher education is telling. Employers...
The 50 per cent target for participation in higher education is ambitious (Analysis, THES , January 3). If achieved, the government will see it as successful only if a large proportion of those...
Can someone with a better statistical brain than mine explain the government's target for higher education participation? Margaret Hodge has said that "at present more than 43 per cent of young...
Harriet Swain is on the ball about the dearth of "passionate intellectuals" ("How does an expert join the ranks of the fame academy?", THES , January 3). As I am 86, I can go back a few years. It was...