Ministers have long seen this week's select committee report as the first big hurdle in the implementation of their higher education plans. Academe was never going to like the separation of teaching...
The first of our new series of subject focuses, on history, tells a story that is likely to be repeated in many other areas. As high-prestige universities expand provision, former polytechnics...
Henry Biggs was a 'nerdy' classics lecturer until a discussion of Homer inspired him to start rapping. Stephen Phillips does a sound check Chuck Berry is the normal bill of fare at Blueberry Hill....
Edward Woodward was not the only one to get fired up by The Wicker Man. Olga Wojtas joins the academic debate about the cult horror movie. Britt Ekland writhing naked in the cult horror movie The...
Lord Palmerston's foreign policy led to British mastery of the seas but also the burden of imperialism. So is he an appropriate hero for George W. Bush? asks Miles Taylor. When thousands of anti-war...
The Wicker Man 's depiction of Summerisle pagans as sexually promiscuous, human-sacrificing, sinister hokey-cokey dancers is, not surprisingly, very much at odds with the campus activities of today's...
It wasn't enough for Sandy Lerner to experience Jane Austen's world through books, so she used £10 million of her own cash to recreate it for scholars and the public to visit. Anne Sebba reports. The...
Language students who miss out on a year abroad ("Fees threat to languages", THES, July 4) are damaging their job prospects. A recent study of more than 1,100 language graduates showed that the...
When I mentioned the white paper's denial of the link between research and teaching to a US colleague, he said: "Look at the National Science Foundation review criteria." There are two criteria for...
With depressing regularity, government ministers and higher education pundits chant, "We cannot have world-class research in all of our universities." This is dispiriting to many fine scholars, it is...
The news that researchers now have access to free online publication through BiomedCentral ("Jisc wins free journal access with BiomedCentral", THES, June ) might - if we are lucky - herald a radical...
Andrew Wilkie reportedly rejected a student because he had done national service in the Israeli army (In the News, THES, July 4). A few years ago, I mentored an Israeli colleague in writing and...
David Cesarani ("Face has changed but fear remains", THES, June ) compares the English press reaction to Jewish immigration in the early 20th century to today's scapegoating of Muslim communities....
David Cesarani warns that Muslims could be facing the same threats Jews did here. In the light of experience, the lesson seems to be that any action the authorities take should avoid harming the...
Richard Grove offers some long-overdue warnings about the loss of materials from Britain's library system ("Don't pulp the past", THES, June ), but we should not condemn the British Library for the...