Praise be Ford
Ken Mortimer argues that staff development in the car company giant is a prerequisite to survival in the brave new world of technology. Twenty-five years ago Ford was known as one of the best...
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The very titled deeds
The Fate of the English Country House - The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home
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Intellectual seeding
Ravi Dayal charts the progress of the world's third largest publisher of books in English No one quite knows how many publishers of books there are in India, but estimates place the number at about...
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United pitch in acut-throat world
Scottish universities are banding together to try to beat hot competition for research cash. John Laver explains. A consortium of the 13 Scottish universities, with Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh...
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All about Honest Abe
Lincoln
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Urging a natural enmity
Biological pest control is backing the farmers' struggle against those age-old adversaries, mites, locusts and mealybugs. Tunde Fatunde reports One of the world's leading centres for biological...
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Sources for research funding
Each fortnight this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk Cancer Research Campaign 10 Cambridge Terrace London NW1 4JL Tel:...
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Profit in diversity
It is next to impossible to assess the true overall value of a species," Norman Myers writes in his review this week of a clutch of books on biodiversity (pages 22-28). We cannot tell what may come...
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The $64m helix
The Golden Helix - Genetic Engineering
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Into the minds of management
Lucy Hodges talks to Erica Shoenberger, (right) a geographer who believes that corporate decisions have as much to do with boardroom culture as economic facts. Erica Schoenberger's favourite reading...
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Jeux sans frontieres
This week The THES debate on Darwinism moves to its impact on subjects outside biology. Here Kam Patel talks to psychologist David Buss (below). Overleaf Tim Ingold considers the relevance to...
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Slaves to the labour saving idea
The Machine in America - Futile Progress - The End of the Future
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A 'post' man on his rounds
The Meanings of Mass Higher Education
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The tragedy of a yellow mist and cloudedjudgement
Learning from Disaster:
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Cuddly capitalism
Capitalism With Morality - Real Freedom For All - The World After Communism - Economic Democracy - Passions and Constraints