The contrasting fortunes in the jobs market of graduates in information technology and media studies should be a lesson for academic snobs and manpower planners alike. Who would have thought five...
They hurled babies into ravines and culled their workforce yearly. Historian Paul Cartledge thinks we could learn a thing or two from those Spartans. Jennifer Wallace reports. A small closely knit...
UK higher education is a multibillion-pound industry, yet most of its 'chief executives' have only limited management experience. Caroline Davis looks at how a new MBA aims to address this lack of...
Angela Clow juggles multiple roles in a hectic schedule as project leader, caring mum and the practical woman of her department. In the third of our series All in a Day's Work, Harriet Swain meets a...
Our craving for heroes has created images of scientific supermen who single-handedly changed our lives for the better. But, argues John Waller, we should be looking at the wider picture. In the BBC's...
How do you inspire young people to pursue mathematics? Karl Sabbagh meets an offbeat talent-spotter. Charles Ryavec is a trim, grey-haired man in his 60s, teaching at a strange institution called the...
How do you inspire young people to pursue mathematics? Martin Ince looks at UK efforts What is the problem with mathematics in British universities? Ask anyone and you will get the same reply: "...
I certainly aged in the four weeks between photographs in The THES (In the news, October 4; "Celebrity snares", November 1). I am obviously not the celebrity you think as the error went unnoticed by...
Alan Shipman's claim that the MBA might not be worth the paper it is printed on ("Is the masterplan coming unstuck?", THES , November 8) is true only for a minority of graduates. There are more than...
Gillian Evans has fought doughtily to make Cambridge University central administration stick to the rules, so eyebrows may be raised over reports of her promotion to professor before Regent House...
Queen's University Belfast's decision to axe classics ("Poet Heaney joins protest over axeing of classic", THES , November 1) means that potential students "will have to leave the province to do a...
I read with interest the argument that top-up fees will mean that most academics will be unable to afford to send their children to university (Letters, THES , November 8). Up until 1950, some...
Tony Hewish's minimising of the part played by his student Jocelyn Bell Burnell in the discovery of pulsars should not be the final word (Diary, THES , October 25, November 8). The discovery of...
The article "Troubled Wales is hit by plagiarism claim" (News, THES , November 8) conflates and confuses two cases. The first, Jo Kimber's, was a complaint to the University of Wales Swansea that was...
Ian Wilmut's review of Genetic Politics (Books, November 8) ignores how the disability discourse has been hijacked by anti-abortionists. The obligatory denunciation of "eugenics" is one way of...