This week's report on the widespread clandestine retention of body parts at Alder Hey hospital and elsewhere uncovers practices aptly described as grotesque by health secretary Alan Milburn. Its...
This week's academic asset exchanges on Humberside are only the latest sign that the landscape of British higher education is starting to alter after many years in which fundamental change has been...
Researchers fear that a knee-jerk reaction to the Alder Hey body parts scandal could hit vital medical research and teaching. In the wake of the Redfern report, medical schools insist procedures to...
MPs call for higher repayment threshold MPs on the cross-party education select committee have told higher education minister Baroness Blackstone that the government should ...
FINANCIAL TIMES John Wood, dean of engineering at Nottingham University, has been appointed chief executive of the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils. Researchers in Canada and the United...
One of the most interesting things for me as a film historian is the development of what is called short-form television - series that have half-hour and hour-long episodes. In my lectures, I look...
A free-standing research council will stifle management studies, argues Anthony Hopwood. From time to time, there is pressure to create an independent Research Council for Management Research. The...
Last week in The THES: Gill Jackson argued that Cambridge's equality audit had valuable lessons for other universities. Reading Gill Jackson's article as a first-year historian, there seems to be a...
Ads on university websites are an unwelcome intrusion in what has been a traditionally advertising-free zone, argues Charles Crook. When you think about it, the library catalogue serving a university...
The military denies it but depleted uranium has been discovered in veterans' bodies. Philip Fine reports. It was 3am when Pat Horan emailed her colleagues to let them know the final test results. She...
Research should be supported even in departments scoring less well in the RAE, says John Enderby. Concentration and selectivity in university research funding has reached the right level. The health...
Schools should capitalise on the popularity of Pokémon. Studies of the trading card phenomenon are revealing potential educational benefits. "It's not all commercial exploitation," said David...
One in 12 people grind their teeth during sleep, a condition called sleep bruxism that is associated with a host of disorders such as daytime sleepiness and anxiety. In a report in the journal Chest...
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WHAT Paul Kleiman looks at 'cavalier', 'roundhead' and 'innocent' approaches to assessing performing arts students. WHY It is no longer enough for tutors to say 'you were wonderful darling'. HOW...