(Photograph) - Streets ahead: The New College Durham summer youth production of 42nd Street has sold out. It has been choreographed by Joanne Banks, a former performing arts student at the college,...
British degrees are cheaper than those offered by Australian and American Ivy League universities, according to research by London University's Institute of Education, writes Simon Targett. Foreign...
A large amount of the cash awarded to humanities postgraduates still goes to the "Golden Triangle" of Oxford, Cambridge and London, British Academy figures reveal. But the University of Sussex pipped...
Former Employment Department civil servants dominate the new-look Department for Education and Employment, taking five out of the eight top posts in the department's governing board. The only DFE...
Kam Patel meets Leda Cosmides, the evolutionary psychologist at the forefront of the hunt for a universal description of human nature. An enduring childhood memory for Leda Cosmides is that of her...
Fifty years after Hiroshima, nuclear scientist Arjun Makhijani talks to John Davies about the legacy of nuclear weapons production. The public, at least in the United States, has a very complex...
Do academics like Anthony Giddens neglect their students? Brian Brivati refutes the charge. The recent article and exchange of letters in The Guardian about whether or not Anthony Giddens, professor...
Are the Tories, after decades of proudly sporting their moniker as 'the stupid party', becoming intellectual? Huw Richards looks at the evidence. A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks -...
Wednesday. I spend most of the morning tidying up loose ends on a paper, checking references, adjusting graphs and tables and finally printing out copies for submission to the journal. As my last...
David Wenham gives some tips on laboratory safety proceedures. The prosecution of a university reader following an accident during an undergraduate chemistry project created much interest and...
As fighting in the former Yugoslavia escalates, The THES asked leading academics the following questions: 1. What action do you think Britain and the UN should take next? 2. Is the present attitude...
Every now and then the world's attention shifts. For much of the post-war period it focused on the Third World, on Korea and Vietnam and the struggles against colonialism. In the 1980s it was the...
I am one of the 1,222 unsuccessful applicants in this year's Economic and Social Research Council research studentship competition, but fortunately I have a job. My complaint is about the way the...
Your report and headline "British Academy cuts PhD years" on my address on behalf of the British Academy's Humanities Research Board for Graduate Education (THES, July 28) is misleading. First, the...
There are 10,000 external examiner slots to be filled at any one time, but how feasible and desirable is the role? Harold Silver asks. The key finding of the recent project on the future of external...