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Mark Wallinger struck a chord with his Ecce Homo in London's Trafalgar Square. Now he hopes to make his mark at the Venice Biennale, the most prestigious visual arts festival in the world. Helen...

The Rothermere American Institute at Oxford, which opens today, will host a global resource for American studies and be a welcoming home for visiting scholars, writes Alan Ryan. When former US...

Seeking total security, President Bush wants the US to build a national missile shield dubbed Son of Star Wars. The result, says Christoph Bluth, will be more insecurity for all. For the past four...
As many students struggle against poverty, Cherry Canovan gauges their attitudes towards political activism. The National Union of Students does not want students to vote for any particular party in...
Halls of residence to the corridors of power: John Davies reports on the interns who are cutting their teeth in Westminster. There was a time when American interns easily outnumbered their British...
" Burgeoning student numbers are putting pressure on time-tables and forcing universities to extend their teaching hours " - THES May 18. FROM: The departmental secretary (Maureen) TO: All full-time...
The foot and mouth epidemic may be past its peak but the lessons for research policymakers are fundamental. For decades, the United Kingdom had an Agricultural Research Council. The word "food" was...
As Britain's election focus turned to Europe, education ministers from the European Union and beyond last weekend nudged the Bologna process - shorthand for convergence of the Continent's higher...
You correctly highlight the vulnerability of students who have decided to make "easy" money as prostitutes ("Red light finds its way on to campus", THES , May 11). Doubtless the vision of ever-...
So the Conservatives have put forward proposals to free universities from state funds by means of endowment ("Party pieces: promises and prescriptions", THES , May 18). Whatever their merits, one...
The most interesting datum contained in your poll of academic voting intentions was the fact that 126 out of 501 academics polled declined to "express a voting intention" ("Academics abandon Tories...
In your leader ("New Hefce boss is on a mergers mission", THES , May 18), you describe the result as universities with "massive student numbers, front-rank research, deep and wide links into the...