Science has been disappointingly omitted from the three main parties' election manifestos, according to Peter Cotgreave, director of the lobby group, Save British Science. The main Conservative Party...
Universities would have their budgets cut by almost a quarter under Conservative spending plans, prime minister Tony Blair told The THES this week. Mr Blair said it would be impossible for the...
As Labour tries to out-bid the Tories in the fight against crime, nobody has checked the facts, say Roger Matthews and Jock Young. Between 1995 and 1999 there was a 23 per cent drop in the crime rate...
David Cromwell asks why the media and politicians seem blind to the dangers of globalisation It is the elephant in the room - the one big issue that politicians and media in this election have tried...
THES reporters talk to four academics who are candidates in the general election. Robert Collinson Law lecturer Robert Collinson believes he is on track to reverse the thumping 18 per cent swing from...
Northern Ireland has its best chance in more than 30 years of returning a woman to Westminster, according to the Centre for Advancement of Women in Politics at Queen's University, Belfast. Twenty per...
Ever fancied playing Peter Snow for an evening? Politics and computer experts at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, have devised an online "swingometer" that allows people to do just that....
THES reporters talk to Phil Woolas and Stephen Twigg, MPs who are both former NUS presidents. Phil Woolas Phil Woolas, Labour candidate for Oldham East and Saddleworth, fears higher...
Deadline: 29/06/2001
Julie Neuberger is provoked by confused parallels of oppression. Like much of Andrea Dworkin's work, Scapegoat is brilliant, infuriating, thought provoking and ultimately flawed. Yet her insight into...
The Game of Life
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel far better known as a film: "Benjamin Braddock graduated from a small Eastern college on a day...
Chomsky on MisEducation - The Inspectors' Calling
The State of UK Higher Education
Education and Development