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Leaving the parental home has increasingly become a "rite of passage" in the past two decades, replacing marriage as the defining event of independent adulthood, according to research from the...
Leaving the parental home has increasingly become a "rite of passage" in the past two decades, replacing marriage as the defining event of independent adulthood, according to research from the...
(Photograph) - Onwards and upwards: a week of celebrations to mark the London School of Economics's centenary were crowned on Wednesday with the news that the school's professor of international law...
Croydon College has become a college of the University of Sussex in a move which reflects the blurring of traditionally rigid boundaries between further and higher education. Croydon, which offers...
David Walker reports on new criticism of Thomas Mann Here, in Britain, literary iconoclasm is a kind of sport, not quite as lucrative as amateur rugby but appealing, it seems, to many readers....
Richard Pring disagrees with James Tooley's argument, set out in last week's THES, that school exams should be replaced by IQ tests The most surprising aspect of James Tooley's column in last week's...
John Davies meets Rosalyn Higgins, the first female judge appointed to the International Court of Justice in the Hague In a corridor in the London School of Economics law department last month there...
A new exhibition at the Paris Opera has triggered a reappraisal of academe's relationship with the grandest of the performing arts. Stella Hughes reports The grand central staircase and the public...
In the latest in our occasional series, Martyn Kelly talks to Richard Lacey about the latter's first published research, the conclusions of which have become accepted clinical practice Professor...
John Webster believes we spend too much time talking about animal rights and too little minimising animal suffering. Aisling Irwin met him What kind of man can hold, simultaneously, the following two...
The merging of the Universities Funding Council and the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council sectors of higher education meant that the funding of universities coming from varying starting...
SUNDAY. Lazy day. Swim as usual for last hour before sunset. Greet consultant who meets us on beach as we come out. He has arrived today, from British Open University, and has been working with us...
A group of academics stands in line, like a Communist bread queue, to collect a monthly salary amounting to Pounds 100-Pounds 200. The money must be collected in cash on a particular day of the month...
Your report on the Queen Mary and Westfield College Bill (THES, July 7) contains two mistakes. First, this is not a Private Member's Bill: it is a Private Bill which is something completely different...
Merger of the education and employment ministries is long overdue. . . but there are doubters. Mary Warnock warns of the dangers to 'genuine academic education' The marriage of education and training...
Should James Tooley (THES, July 7) ever have the misfortune to be under the surgeon's knife, I hope that he will be able to take comfort in the fact that the surgeon's IQ was high at the age of ten...