They faced the pit and the political pendulum
Industrial Politics and the 1926 Mining Lockout: The Struggle for Dignity
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Lessons to build a scientific citizenry
Improving Secondary Science Teaching
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A handful of dust from Babylon
The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad: The Lost Legacy of Ancient Mesopotamia
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The prehistoric weather forecast: partly cloudy
Climate Change in Prehistory
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Pharaohs in folk memory of the Orient
Egyptology, The Missing Millennium: Ancient Egypt in Medieval Arabic Writings
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Learn the ABCs of Egypt to give your soul wings
100 Hieroglyphs: Think Like an Egyptian - Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Practical Guide
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In colonial Lima, autos-da-fe fused race into a fascist body politic
Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World
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Do we share more than just land?
The Tribes of Britain:Who Are We? And Where Do We Come from?
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Complaint culture grows on campus
Universities have been swamped by more than 20,000 complaints and exam appeals in the past three years as students assert their consumer rights in increasing numbers, figures released to The Times...
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Tax can be toxic, says smoking research
Tax increases on cigarettes have long been a drag for the nicotine-addicted and now research suggests that price hikes cause smokers to inhale more deeply. The findings suggest that higher prices for...
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'For each set of students A levels are A once-in-a-lifetime thing'
Ellie Johnson Searle, director of the Joint Council for Qualifications, is braced for annual criticism of A levels As the media began its annual A-level feeding frenzy and speculation, only one...
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On the move ...
* Johanna Laybourn-Parry , professor of environmental biology at Nottingham University, has been appointed dean of natural sciences at Keele University. * Philip Nelson , professor and director of...
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Nice little Bunsen burner for hard-up
Cash-strapped undergraduates at Warwick University are to be offered paid work in academic departments as part of a financial aid package to help poor students cope with the higher tuition fees due...
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Schools to start pupils on degrees
Secondary schools have been given the green light to deliver degree modules to pupils in a move that will give university admissions staff a better idea of applicants' abilities. Legislative changes...
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No bias against independent sector applicants by elite institutions, survey finds
There is no truth to claims that leading universities discriminate against applicants from private schools, the Independent Schools Council has said. The largest ever analysis of applications to...