We have reached the stage of the Parliament when opposition parties need to display some fresh thinking - preferably in fields where the electorate shows signs of discontent with current policies....
Leafing through the submissions to Richard Lambert's review of links between business and higher education, it would be easy to be pessimistic about the prospects for a closer relationship. Each side...
The ultimate weapons in the cold war armoury were refrigerators and washing machines, says Susan Reid. The US and the USSR fought for superiority between the pots and pans in a battle between '...
With the first half of his career over, footballer Tony Adams is developing an arsenal of intellectual skills to succeed in the second. Matthew Baker reports It has been a difficult transitional year...
What is history? It's not simply gathering facts about the past, it's about searching for truth in them, says Richard Evans in the first of our series on Big Questions in History The answer to the...
Learning the secret of 'scale-free' networks allowed the Inquisition to stamp out heresy. Its strategy could help us fight disease, computer viruses and terrorists, argue Andrew Roach and Paul...
How do you transform a backwater college into an academic powerhouse? Freeman Hrabowski began by forsaking football and recruiting chess champions. Stephen Phillips reports You'll probably recognise...
A lecturer's dramatisation of the pain, confusion and ignorance that surrounds infertility fails to deliver, says Anna Fazackerley If people were meant to reproduce they'd be able to reproduce...
Adrian Mourby ("Why I want to see films in Oxford University's Bodleian Library", THES , May 30) has put his finger on one of the many deficiencies in the legislation governing the deposit of UK...
Adrian Mourby is too modest when he claims his books are not available in the Bodleian Library. I found three online this morning. Maybe he is just bamboozled by the search facilities and would...
Your editorial on higher education unions and the British National Party is welcome ("Unions should know not to tangle with BNP", THES , June 6): a clear and measured reminder of the way that...
Lecturers' union Natfhe's views on supporting colleagues who refuse to teach BNP members are reminiscent of the fascistic approach of the National Union of Students in the 1980s, Germany in the 1930s...
Some university teachers and their unions are discriminating against students who are members of the BNP. But if education is about learning to think logically, then an assessment of the BNP's...
Tapera Kapuya's chilling account (Opinion, THES , June 6) of his experience of the barriers to academic freedom in Zimbabwe is deeply moving. Our sympathies go out to him, as they do to all...
Paul Roberts has a point (Letters, June 6). There are now many varieties of non-native English around the world, the majority of which do not conform to UK or US conventions. As ever larger numbers...