Small proze for man, a giant leap for mankind. Laureates reveal what winning meant to them Sir John Walker was awarded the Nobel for chemistry in 1997 for elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism...
John Davies anatomises the broadcasting week (all times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Simon Schama's epic History of Britain series starts on BBC2 with two one-hour episodes (Saturday 8.05 (...
The Nobel Foundation is 100 next month. Asa Briggs looks for patterns in a history of excellence, while, below, laureates reveal what winning meant to hem When a bestselling American book, In Search...
(Photograph) - Silvio Ruggieri, the first Saatchi Scholar at Chelsea College of Art and Design, presented his show 'Origin and Destination 0.02: Pathological Form', last week. Photograph by JOEL CHANT
Union leaders fear job losses nationally and are threatening strikes. Tony Tysome reports Low goals: on many measures, the educational performance of Sheffield's youngsters is below the national...
Last month in The THES...John Stein advocated the introduction of special selection tests Nigel Probert Caerphilly Universities should offer subjects for extended essay (2,500-3,000 words) to final-...
Alan Thomson reports from the Lib Dem's conference in Bournemouth Liberal Democrats have reaffirmed calls to abolish tuition fees, even though a senior party member said abolition would penalise the...
Monday To the Netherlands, with good friend and colleague Dr Donna, to speak at the "Global Conference on Language and Literacy" at the University of Utrecht. Travel in the university car - a 2-litre...
(Photograph) - English plastered over a hoarding in east Berlin. Some academics think such linguistic colonisation betrays a lack of confidence in German
In the last few months of the year, publishers tend to put next year's date on new books. Academics mindful of the need for 2000 publications for the research assessment exercise might like to check...
Internet scholars are stuck in the past while the public plays with the future, argues David Gauntlett Before the mid-1990s, academics knew everything about the internet. No wonder: they ran it. It...
Labour peer and vice-chancellors' chief Diana Warwick admitted this week that the abolition of maintenance grants had damaged efforts to widen participation in higher education by the poor. She made...
* Sixty Malaysians will arrive at British universities next month, mostly for postgraduate studies, under the Chevening programme. A further 16 will continue in their second or third year of study...
Scottish finance minister Jack McConnell has increased the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's budget from Pounds 609.4 million in 2000-01 to Pounds 697.6 million in 2003-04 - an increase in...
(Photograph) - The widow of Sir Gordon Beveridge (pictured), former vice-chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast, has won Pounds 295,000 damages following Sir Gordon's death from the incurable...