The Treasury's decision to publish the cross-cutting review of science and research this week - it was completed in March - fuels speculation that its recommendations will find their way into next...
Is the 7-million-year-old Toumai skull the earliest example of mankind? Palaeontologist Michel Brunet made headlines when he said it was - but not all his colleagues agree. Jane Marshall reports...
The annual Ig Nobel awards for the oddest research, at which real Nobel prize-winners often cavort on stage, are helping to popularise science. Steve Farrar reports The message left on Chris McManus'...
From identifying a dismembered body to investigating Bronze-Age decking, it's all in a day's work for environmental archaeologist Nick Branch. Chris Bunting reports When Nick Branch is on his...
Steven Vertovec explores the vast, often hidden networks of modern, global diasporas Irish or Italian migrants to the US 150 years ago might have hoped that a letter would reach home weeks after it...
Is student activism reviving? Ivor Gaber drops in on a UK teach-in It was almost like old Vietnam times: two dozen student activists sitting in a room in London University's School of Oriental and...
Is student activism reviving? Stephen Phillips talks to a US campus political veteran. As a US air force bombardier stationed in Britain during the second world war, bestselling radical American...
Tutors must inculcate in students a confidence that lets them express their views, writes Chris Hopkins First-year English students often ask this apparently stylistic question: "Is it OKif I say 'I...
Readers of "Outcry as Soas drops Yiddish" ( THES , October 11) might think that Yiddish is no longer available at London University. But Yiddish is alive and well across the road at University...
Why did we modularise (Letters, THES , October 11, 18)? Because offering minors, majors and single honours in each subject across a large modular scheme allowed small subjects to attract enough...
Preparations for war against Iraq are illegal and are diverting attention from the war against terrorism ("What lurks in the shadows", THES , October 18). Britain's attorney-general has ruled that...
Your leader on the Imperial/University College London merger ("Ministers could find full cost fees too hot to handle", THES , October 18) makes much of the challenge to Oxbridge. This may be a...
Stephen Gundle (Letters, THES , October 18) perversely misreads my review of Paul Ginsborg's Italy and its Discontents (Books, THES , September ) as a personal attack on Ginsborg. He fails to...
I am writing an account of the development of quality assurance in UK higher education between 1992 and 2002. I am interested in any work on the impact of quality assurance regimes, particularly...
The future of cross-border collaboration in higher education in Ireland is up in the air following the suspension of the devolved institutions created by the Belfast Agreement ("Labour MP takes over...