Leader: Use the carrot not the stick to focus minds
There is a brutal logic behind ministers' enthusiasm for teaching-only universities of the type that led Margaret Hodge to ask why the government should fund institutions that could not attract...
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Leader: Broader skills are just what doctor ordered
The reservations of British medical academics about the doctors who will emerge from the new fast-track, graduate-entry degrees will not stop the change to new patterns of medical education....
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RAE review: Gladiatorial contest is the victim of its own success
The research assessment exercise review panel wants to see radical change. The THES asks three experts to do some out-of-the-box thinking In many ways, the research assessment exercise is a brilliant...
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RAE review: Tired, hard-up RAE seeks saviour with light touch
The research assessment exercise review panel wants to see radical change. The THES asks three experts to do some out-of-the-box thinking Walk into any academic department in the UK, ask what the...
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RAE review: Precocious teenager will benefit from scholarship
The research assessment exercise review panel wants to see radical change. The THES asks three experts to do some out-of-the-box thinking It is 15 years since the first research assessment exercise,...
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RAE review: More clarity and less secrecy will counter bias
The research assessment exercise review panel wants to see radical change. The THES asks three experts to do some out-of-the-box thinking My first suggestion for improvement of the research...
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Designed for another life
Randolph Nesse is on a mission. Normally a professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan, he is spending a year at University College London, and one of his targets while in town is the "...
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Cutting edge: Visions of the past
Belinda Chang and her colleagues have used molecular biology to recreate history in their laboratory How do you research the vision of a creature that's been extinct for more than 200 million years?...
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Could our genes be a vaccine for Aids?
Can we use evolution to our advantage in the fight against disease? Martin Ince speaks to Sir David Weatherall (pictured) about the potential of molecular medicine Evolution by natural selection is...
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When the Lord pipes up
Can religious fervour be inspired by low-frequency sounds from organ, or even drainage, pipes? Christopher Wood takes a spine-tingling look at infrasound Some of the world's great thinkers have...
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Steely veteran with a cold eye on bottom line
Top-up fees, debt and moves to reform governance make for turbulent times at Cambridge, so how will Alison Richard, its first female vice-chancellor, weather the storm? Walter Ellis expects heads to...
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Civil rights sacrificed on altar of security
Real and imagined terrorist threats are driving governments to scrap basic freedoms in a fight against a virtual enemy, say Conor Gearty and Gerd Oberleitner How fragile is our commitment to what we...
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Degrees are not their business 1
If it is true that private companies are to be given degree-awarding powers so as to promote competition in higher education ("Go-ahead for corporate degrees", THES , November 29), then three issues...
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Degrees are not their business 2
I see that prominent free-marketeer James Tooley is congratulating new Labour for "thinking the unthinkable" with plans to, in effect, privatise the authority to award degrees. One thing puzzles me...
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Proud and pumped up
As someone who teaches and researches in pure biochemistry and sports and exercise science, I am used to my work in the latter area being trivialised by my more traditional colleagues. Still, now...