Space centre gets cash
Liverpool John Moores University has won funding for an £8 million International Space and Astronomy Centre. This will be a joint venture between Mersey Ferries, with its parent company Merseytravel...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work recommended by both left and right: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were...
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A meeting of tongues
Contact Linguistics
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The high fliers on edge of anarchy
Secret Classrooms
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Putting secret justice on trial
Open Justice
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Talk of tort law as a tool for tortured
Torture as Tort
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Diversity bike wobbles as the training wheels come off
Silence at Boalt Hall
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Twitching veil of ignorance
Ethics, Economics, and Politics
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Gripped by a Pepys show
Samuel Pepys
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Biblical lives and secrets revealed
The Complete World of the Dead Sea Scrolls
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Chomsky wipes slate clean
On Nature and Language
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Laurie Taylor
From: The vice-chancellor and chief executive To: All academic staff As one or two of you might be vaguely aware, The THES recently published a league table purporting to show the increases in salary...
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Alan Ryan
Does Britain have class the way that America has race? If so, can positive discrimination do any good? The item in Charles Clarke's white paper on the future of higher education that has attracted...
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Leader: Build a research elite and ensure freedom for rest
There is no point trying to stop academics doing research. Even in new universities, which have almost no official funding for it, research goes on, papers are published and research degrees are...
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Leader: Recruiting free-for-all will bring instability
Top-up fees and restrictions on research funds represent the public face of the government's proposed higher education "market". But student enrolment figures published this week show that fissures...