The annual A-level row is almost over and the GCSE version is just beginning. It is the universities' turn to be accused of dumbing down. At a time of record pass rates, some are apparently ready to...
It's not enough to oppose confrontation with Saddam - the world must come up with an alternative that does not abandon the Iraqi people to endless suffering, says Christoph Bluth We don't know when...
The world's cities can do the most to worsen or mitigate environmental damage and climate change. Julian Hunt and Lorna Walker focus on London It is becoming increasingly apparent that the often...
As politicians head for Johannesburg, Chris Bunting starts our four-page special on sustainability by looking at how the summit will bring together more scientific experts and policy-makers than ever...
Humans do not develop by buying mobile phones and BMWs, argues Thai environmentalist Sulak Sivaraksa, who believes a sustainable future requires a little bit of spiritual enlightenment. Chris Bunting...
Preserving the biodiversity of our planet will require some short-term sacrifices but in the long term it will benefit everyone, both economically and environmentally. Jaap de Roode reports In the...
Simon Armitage talks about prisoners, prose, poetry conferences and car problems with Gary Day Once famous for its cricket, Yorkshire is now renowned for its poets: Ted Hughes, Tony Harrison and,...
In the last of our series on tourism, Chris Ryan considers how academic studies of sex tourism can help sex workers gain human rights and promote responsible travelling Sex tourism as a topic of...
As ever post-clearing, we are privy to the annual whinge about the decline and fall of British education standards. But out there where real students live, there are hopeful voices, rejoicing hearts...
The visitor processes are as varied as the post-holders (Letters, THES , August 16). A complainant might be lucky and get a "good bishop" or the Privy Council Office. They might get an oral hearing...
With reference to Frank Furedi's article "Would you fail the Trades Description Act?" ( THES , August 16), first, it is the Trade Descriptions Act 1968. Second, there may be more than a "little doubt...
Much is made in Cambridge about the university as a community of scholars, rather than as an organisation of employers and employed. Some believe this implies that scholars own the intellectual...
You report Hubert Picarda QC as saying that "universities should fall into exempt charity status because they are subject to self-regulation" ("Concern at proposed charity law reforms", THES , August...
I read with interest your article "Academe's UK stars of future shun Cambridge" ( THES , August 16). I applied as a research student to Cambridge's maths faculty as an external graduate only to be...
Jeremy Black presents a tale of fear and loathing among historians in respect of the late Sir Jack Plumb ("A Plumb with an acerbic aftertaste", THES , August 16). Obituaries should not be...