Leader: Why couldn't a new year start in January?
Universities have claimed for years that they wanted a post A-level admissions system, while simultaneously insisting that it could not be done. How ironic that the moment real progress was being...
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Is imagination more important than knowledge? Einstein
Berlin, 1929. The poet and journalist George Sylvester Viereck has charmed an interview out of an initially reluctant superstar physicist¹. He asks: "How do you account for your discoveries? Through...
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Benefit to womb from a view
'And this is a picture of your ovaries.' Geoff Watts examines the radical methods being used to teach trainee doctors good bedside manners. When doctors have finished examining the nooks and crannies...
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Money back guaranteed?
If top-up fees are adopted, demand for data on what students can expect to earn from their degrees will grow. Chris Bunting reports. In Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure , a young Jude talks to...
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Take away the books and chairs collapse
Is the monograph dead? Stephen Phillips reports on US scholars' search for alternative publishing opportunities on the route to tenure. Tracing the academic food chain back, most US humanities...
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Will monographs fall victim to the marketing men?
Helen Hague finds that, in the UK, the hybrid textbook is knocking the traditional tome off the library shelf. Research in arts and humanities in British universities is proliferating, fuelled by...
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L'administration leaves French flair undimmed
Continuing our look at the work of people in higher education, All in a day's work, Harriet Swain spends a day with the head of Nottingham's School of Modern Languages. Name : Nicholas Hewitt Post :...
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Open market shuts door on scholarly achievement
The mentality that portrays students as consumers restricts the true intellectual choice available to them, argues Frank Furedi. The rhetoric of student choice is all the rage in higher education. "...
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Is the masterplan coming unstuck?
UK business appears to have an insatiable appetite for employees brandishing MBAs, but when the going gets tough it might find that such qualifications really aren't worth the paper they are written...
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We must make words
As the US considers a unilateral strike on Iraq, Sean Coughlan talks to Oxfordacademic and former peacekeeper Sir Marrack Goulding about the future of the UN One could imagine meeting Sir Marrack...
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Dershowitz's tortured case (full text)
To be accused of dishonesty, mendaciousness, deceits, stereotyping, and bigotry by Alan Dershowitz is a mild form of torture, easily rebutted (Letters, THES , November 1). His letter responds to none...
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Costs of top-up fees 3
One consequence of the imposition of top-up fees will be that most academics will be unable to afford to send their own children to university. John Newsinger Bath Spa University College Lorna...
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Dershowitz's tortured case
To be accused of dishonesty, mendaciousness, deceits, stereotyping and bigotry by Alan Dershowitz is a mild form of torture. His letter ( THES , November 1) responds to none of my serious objections...
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The real arts academy
I wish Sir Michael Bichard the best of luck in his bid for university status for the highly distinguished London Institute (News, THES , October 25). But he cannot be allowed to get away with the...
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Abreast of industry
The claim that 80 per cent of computing graduates are lost to UK industry comes from a comparison of incompatible and incomplete statistics that does not stand up to serious scrutiny ("Industry...