Distance learning may be the future for business schools, but they face many pitfalls, warns Bernard Ramanantsoa. Some years ago, a French comedian had audiences roaring with laughter at the story of...
Business schools hold the key to success for Britain's investment community, argues Philip Augar. During the late 1990s, the City's investment banks experienced one of those wholesale collapses in...
Last month in The THES. Catherine Belsey called for an overhaul of 'ye olde' exam classifications. One reason why degree classifications have survived into the 21st century, despite all the arguments...
Developing nations could profit from our aversion to risk, says Bridget Ogilvie. The public is in a state of confusion concerning how best to protect its interests. People resent being told what to...
Since my time as an undergraduate psychology student I have had countless letters published in newspapers and journals. I usually write about my research specialisms: addictions, gambling, video...
John Heilbron opens a THES tribute to 100 years of quantum theory with a look at Max Planck's contribution to modern physics. When, on December 14 1900, Max Planck presented the paper now regarded as...
Sainsbury among Labour's big donors Science minister Lord Sainsbury is one of two £2 million benefactors the Labour Party has been forced to name. The other is Christopher Ondaatje, a member of the...
Gates gift founds scholarship scheme Washington state’s largest private scholarship programme is being established through a $100 million gift from the Bill and Melinda Gates...
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Mid-Ocean Ridges
Encyclopedia of Volcanoes
Fossil Crinoids
A century of lost lives has changed a nation, writes Adam Hochschild. When my family and I were living in Moscow some ten years ago, the only foreigners in a sombre, fortress-like apartment block, a...
God's Equation
Hitler, 1936-1945