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The threat of global competition, particularly from the US, is finally coming home to UK universities. Those eager to exploit the opportunities, like the Open University, are the exception....
The threat of global competition, particularly from the US, is finally coming home to UK universities. Those eager to exploit the opportunities, like the Open University, are the exception....
After 15 years of military rule, Nigeria has a chance for democracy. John Morgan and Michael Omolewa call on academia to play its part There are high expectations in Nigeria as the transition to...
The good news for higher education in this week's Budget is on the research side. Directly, modest but most welcome extra sums were announced for the University Challenge Fund and for infrastructure...
The under-representation of non-white academics in British universities ("The colour blind spot", THES, March 5) is little short of a scandal, but by focusing almost exclusively on recruitment...
It was interesting to see the list of art and music colleges with no black academics. Many are very small, with fewer than 1,000 students and a staff of 100 full-time equivalent or fewer. Art schools...
As Stephen R. L. Clark (Letters, THES, March 5) reminds us, selection, as metaphor or explanation, has a long currency in endeavours to express the power of Locke's "ideas and images of men's minds"...
The Implied Spider
Mindfield - Hate Thy Neighbour
The Wild Card of Reading
The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and the Measurement Process
Astrophysical Techniques - The Physics of the Interstellar Medium - Introductory Astronomy
Understanding Physics
A History of Mathematics
The Physics and Chemistry of Solids
Shakespeare - Shakespeare