This is the last edition of The THES this year and indeed, according to purists, this millennium. To set the scene for the next decade, if not the next 1,000 years, this issue includes our second...
Our first Millennium Magazine looked back over the past 1,000 years of intellectual achievement. This follow-up looks forward and asks by what values we should live in the years to come. Auriol...
The Times Higher Education Supplement last year celebrated the millennium with a magazine reviewing 1,000 years of intellectual history. This year, which for purists is the true millennium, we look...
We need to create a new moral framework, says Fay Weldon (right), for a society in which science can overturn nature and religion has lost its role as a guiding force Science - which these days seems...
The world could feed itself and have plenty left over. Instead, we allow 800 million people to be malnourished. George Monbiot explains It is the fattest of times, it is the thinnest of times. The...
Some 56 per cent of children aged under five are malnourished in Bangladesh, compared with just 6 per cent in Brazil. - Oxford Handbook of the World Two-thirds of the world's population will be...
Macroecology champion puts bits of habitat into big picture Kevin Gaston , Royal Society university research fellow at Sheffield University, is helping change the way science thinks about...
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research How to weather the storm, drought and floods Persuading a politician to look beyond the next few elections is never easy. Our changing climate is blissfully...
As Britain floods, polar ice melts and droughts desiccate great swaths of land, Steve Farrar asks if such global chaos is due to climate change and, if it is, what are we doing about it? Forest fires...
Parenting: What Really Counts? By Susan Golombok. Routledge, £45.00 What would happen to children if cloning led to a world without men? Susan Golombok says this was one of a battery of press...
The family is alive, society has not broken down, so isit time to stop calling for a return to values that were never lost and address the real issues? asks Phil Baty. Reports of the death of the...
Redefining childhood for the 21st century It is high time forchildren to be heard as well as seen, says Alan Prout , professor of sociology at the University of Stirling and Economic and Social...
What did they really mean, those anti-paedophile protests on council estates over the summer? Lurking beneath them I suspect there lies a disquiet that goes way beyond the immediate issue, one so...
Simulating policy for an ageing society (Sage) Building a UK population model from now to 2020 The population is ageing, and the implications for future social policy are massive, spanning pensions,...
Eighty-three per cent of us believe there is, and some believe life originated on Mars. Colin Pillinger outlines efforts to collect data from the Red Planet and considers the implications The...