Don's Diary
Saturday. Brighton. Another "Induction Day", this week a fresh cohort of wannabe Masters in Education. Working to a very tight schedule today. This strikes a chord with our audience when encouraging...
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Miracles are our business
A few days ago I strolled into the office of one my best friends, an economist. France's unemployment rate for the past month had been made public that very morning, and widely commented upon. I...
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Home View
Universities have always been ambivalent about whether they are local institutions. Most seem detached from their surroundings in the spirit of the ivory tower, and the trend to build universities on...
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A fugitive from the pigeonhole
John Davies talks to Bernard Williams, the philosopher who once advised governments and married a minister and who has just retired from Oxford. At first, there is a problem about interviewing...
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Colleges reach cash stalemate
Further education institutions are calling for a radical cure for their financial ills. A top-level working group looking at the way colleges are funded has failed to come up with anything better...
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Russia's spurned reformer
Archie Brown contrasts Oxford's warm welcome for Gorbachev with the cold shoulder he gets from his countrymen. Mikhail Gorbachev is back in the news again - at least in the West. These days he is...
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Republican Lite?
Bill Clinton looks set to bury Bob Dole in a landslide in next Tuesday's US elections. Not bad for a president who was hugely unpopular only two years ago. How has the Comeback Kid managed this...
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Russians admit decision to dissolve federation was a big mistake
It was, in the words of its national anthem, a "union of free and indivisible republics". It lasted more than 70 years. It pioneered the exploration of outer space, and bored the world's deepest oil...
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Illuminating our hardware
Sara Abdulla explores the burgeoning subject of evolutionary psychology. In human behaviour heredity furnishes the warp and cultural habits the woof; the warp remains everywhere much the same", said...
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Menu masters
This week The THES begins a series on a little-mentioned but crucial ingredient in academic life - food. Here, Lisa Jardine reveals her culinary passions, what the Tudors put in their blancmange and...
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He could handle cyborgs
Jon Turney resurrects the work of a neglected French thinker whose original ideas on the usefulness and limits of rationality in the life sciences are becoming increasingly relevant. Odd how...
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BSE crisis cripples research
Programmes at institutes allied to the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council will be shelved and projects up for renewal will be cut by up to 25 per cent under Ministry of...
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LSE hopes to decide on a new director by December
THE London School of Economics has agreed a shortlist of five for the post of director and hopes to reach a decision within a month. Possible candidates are Baroness Blackstone, master of Birkbeck...
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Rugby death was not the first
Ian Tucker, the Oxford University rugby player who died this week after being injured during a game, is not the first top-class student player to have been killed in this way. Charles McIvor, who was...
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Mikhail Gorbachev
(Photograph) - Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev was in Oxford earlier this week as a guest of St Anthony's College. He was welcomed by Lord Jenkins, chancellor of the university, to the...