The morality of creature comfort
How humans treat animals is a question of our duties towards them not of their rights, argues Mary Midgley Every few months, there is a loud splash when a bold inhabitant dives into some academic or...
How humans treat animals is a question of our duties towards them not of their rights, argues Mary Midgley Every few months, there is a loud splash when a bold inhabitant dives into some academic or...
Universities will need to grasp the nettle of open learning if they are to survive. Tim Greenhalgh reports. Corporation campuses, the global academies, learning cultures, mutual profit were some of...
On the eve of the Online Educa Berlin conference, The Times Higher asked delegates how IT will change the nature of academics' work in ten years' time. Academic lives will be changed for ever with...
International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development
In the wake of the Stevens inquiry into Premiership probity, five football-loving academics tackle the state of play of the national game at professional and community levels Meat-and-potato pie or...
Information jams and long waits to publish research evidence could be a thing of the past thanks to new open- data sources that can make results available online to the scientific community, reports...
Wikis, blogs, podcasts and memory sticks are transforming the ease, reach and interactivity of conferences - and in some cases doing away with a physical event entirely. Stephen Phillips surveys a...
Rethinking the Mediterranean
In a six-page special, The THES looks at the impact of new technology on our society and the degree to which we control it or it has come to control us. Despite the popularity of mobile phones in...
Brussels, 19 March 2002 In a drive to gear up research on genomics - the study of genes and their function - the European Commission has awarded €39.4 million to three large research projects. The...
That's one of the first questions Hefce chief Sir Brian Fender will be asking staff in universities he visits. Claire Sanders and Alison Utley report on the new Learning and Teaching Support network...
The network that brings computing power to your desktop is not electronic, it is social, says William Keenan Time was when the knowledge revolution, the postmodern child of the modern scientific...
The year began with an interview with academic and writer Wole Soyinka, Africa's first Nobel laureate for literature. Soyinka, who spent months in jail for promoting peace with breakaway Biafra...
Source: Getty The 100 Under 50 universities are marked by their energy, innovation and fearless approach to the future, write Phil Baty and Katie Duncan. Australia has overtaken the UK to become the...
Youth need not be a disadvantage in a dynamic higher education scene, discovers Phil Baty. “Having an impact on the world is not about tradition and history – it’s about relevance in the contemporary...