All too few opportunities exist for academics and those concerned with universities or intellectual life more generally to come together for an extended discussion. Usually, such debates are squeezed...
Not for a quarter of a century has the higher education world awaited a Supreme Court judgment so keenly. If, as many expected, Monday's vote had gone against the University of Michigan's right to...
David King and Ian Gibson were rival trade union activists at UEA in the 1970s. Thirty years on, they face each other again, this time fighting for British science. Steve Farrar reports Ian Gibson...
John Richardson delves into the virtual worlds and mixed postmodern message of animated band Gorillaz From Woodstock and Live Aid to Bill Grundy's interview with the Sex Pistols: there are some...
The Sun is credited with inventing the Page 3 girl concept, but the tactic is nothing new, says Adrian Bingham More than 30 years after its introduction, The Sun 's Page 3 girl feature still...
Gordon McPherson is going ghost-hunting in preparation for his next musical composition. Olga Wojtas reports Carrying out research into haunted houses and the voices of the dead might be considered a...
Was the Elephant Man driven to suicide by the medical establishment's exploitation? asks Nadja Durbach The scenes are among the most heartless in cinema history: a drunken, abusive showman exhibiting...
As the West's war on terror intensifies, Muslims are increasingly becoming the focus of suspicion in Britain. Their predicament, writes David Cesarani, bears striking similarities to the experiences...
Scientists must share information if we are to bolster public defences against biological and chemical attacks, writes Herbert Huppert The recent bombings in Saudi Arabia and Morocco and the carnage...
I was bemused to read that Oxford University has finally decided (sort of) to take its postgraduates seriously, the way the institutions that it compares itself to (Harvard, Yale, Princeton) have...
Your editorial on the future of Oxford ( THES , June 20) declares that those who wish it to become more like an Ivy League university, with more postgraduates and a greater emphasis on research, "...
While it is true that Oxford is an extremely crowded place in which to try to expand, £40 million has just been spent purchasing the Radcliffe Infirmary site and £60 million allocated for its...
Paul Mackney, general secretary of Natfhe, has tried to justify his support of lecturers who refuse to teach students on political grounds ("A violent reaction", THES , June 20) after critical...
We write to express dismay about the decision of Durham University this week to shut its East Asia department. Staff were formally told about the proposal only six days before it was due to be...
According to Gordon Graham "The work of Isaac NewtonI contributes nothing to economic prosperity". As the whole of mechanics (engines and machinery of all types) follows from Newton's laws of motion...