Censorship of the Internet is impossible and decisions made about the computer network must reflect this reality, according to a University of Kent academic. Duncan Langford, a computing fellow, said...
Britain's burgeoning vocational education industry should enjoy a multi-million consultancy bonanza following the British Council's success in striking a Pounds 283,000 deal with the Mexican...
Alumnus to be proud of no 65 is John T. Myers, a Republican member of the House of Representatives from Indiana recently rated by George magazine as one of the top-10 pork-barrelers (securer of...
THES reporters turn the spotlight on the working groups set up so far by Sir Ron Dearing as part of his inquiry into the future of higher education. The team of ten assigned by Sir Ron Dearing to...
Much has been made of the "special relationship" between the major political parties in the United States and the United Kingdom in recent years. But the contacts between the Republicans and...
Dear Ron... Our two final open letters to the Dearing committee of inquiry into higher education urge it to conisder the student point of view. Jamie Darwen chair of the National Postgraduate...
Idealism is not dead among young academics. One participant in the poster sessions at the American Political Science Association conference in San Francisco displayed a cardboard placard of the kind...
MONDAY. If you are going to have to spend four hours sitting around an airport there are worse places to do it than Zagreb. There's parkland, a bar with an outside terrace and, because of the...
Senior academics have strongly criticised the proposed British Academy of Sport, claiming it could become a "white elephant" and starve other sport sectors of funding. Margaret Talbot, head of sport...
Science, innovation and technology are central to Labour's industrial strategy for improving Britain's competitiveness. Policies in the Business Prospectus, announced on Wednesday by Tony Blair,...
A naturally occurring chemical that protects against heart disease could be added to certain foods in an attempt to improve the nation's health, a conference hears today. Because the substance is not...
THES reporters turn the spotlight on the working groups set up so far by Sir Ron Dearing as part of his inquiry into the future of higher education. Dearing's Scottish committee has a radically...
KOGE. Denmark hopes to lead the world in health research in five fields following a strategy assessment. The government is ploughing an extra DKr200 million (Pounds 23 million) and a large proportion...
Jim Edwardson explains why he accepted a donation from British American Tobacco to fund research into Alzheimer's disease and why he would not do it again. The Medical Research Council's...
It was 25 years ago, in September 1971, that I first landed in Britain to study for an MA degree. In the spirit of the upcoming 25th anniversary of The THES, I offer these personal reminiscences. The...