Silence greets Leviathan
As the state swelled in the 1940s, political theory retreated into the shadows. Jose Harris explains why. A striking feature of political life in Britain from the mid-17th to the early 20th century...
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Safety pins for a safety net
Nicholas Timmins describes the ever-troubled history of the country's welfare state. "It is the same story . . . in every social service. there is greater demand. . . because the standards of the...
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Summer semester pilots get Pounds 9 million
After years of debate on the academic year, pilot summer extension programmes are to begin in 1996. The Higher Education Funding Council for England agreed at a meeting this week to allot Pounds 9...
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Radical economists left out in the cold
Non-mainstream economists are being marginalised by research assessment, a new survey of the subject in universities argues. The report, The Academic Labour Process and the Research Assessment...
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Internet News
The THES Internet Service includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper and all our advertisements, updated on the Tuesday before publication of the paper. The service is availableon the...
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Britain 1945-95
(Photograph) - In at Number Ten: Since 1945 ten prime ministers have come and nine gone, yet serious historical study of "the twilight years" has only recently been attempted by academics. Next week...
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Replay for quality plan
Vice chancellors will discuss their response today to the Higher Education Funding Council for England's proposals for a single quality assurance agency. The response drafted for their consideration...
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French scientists condemn atom tests
The decision by French president Jacques Chirac to resume nuclear testing has triggered protests from French researchers, backed by scientists around the world. Scientists at the Orsay University,...
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Institutions think local on pay deals
Many higher education institutions want a major reduction in the number of pay bargaining groups down to either a single salary structure or at most two, according to a preliminary analysis carried...
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Plea fee
(Photograph) - Plea fee: Former Bar student Cecilia Hulse faces possible legal costs of up to Pounds 100,000 after losing her High Court appeal over a decision by the Council of Legal Education to...
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Newtonian time lord
David Lorimer talks to Nobel prize-winner Ilya Prigogine about introducing the arrow of time into the basic laws of physics. Ilya Prigogine has had a lifelong preoccupation with time. Years ago he...
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Turning battles into bunker hills
Anthony Gross calls on scholars to remember their duty and defend historic battlefields such as Tewkesbury from incursions by housing estates and golf courses. Most of the issues dealt with by the...
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Coercion by the Nile
Muhammad Mahmoud reports on the ordeal of an academic who has fallen foul of Egypt's Islamic law. Academic freedom and freedom of expression were dealt a severe blow two weeks ago in Egypt when an...
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Universal picture
Martin Rees describes how cosmologists aim to set our solar system in a grand evolutionary scheme by describing a cosmic history probably beginning with a'big bang'. Whilst this planet has been...
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Cupitt's measure
Gerard Kelly meets priest-philosopher Don Cupitt, a radical who discomforts the faithful. Don Cupitt, priest and philosopher of religion at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, is not complimentary about the...