All that remains: life as a forensic anthropologist
Dame Sue Black鈥檚 pioneering work has taken her to war zones and the aftermath of natural disasters. She explains the scientific rigour required in the field

Dame Sue Black鈥檚 pioneering work has taken her to war zones and the aftermath of natural disasters. She explains the scientific rigour required in the field

While Laurie Taylor is away, guest holiday columnist Christopher Bigsby offers a tragic tale of an errant email, a Classics professor and a vengeful vice-chancellor

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Universities used to be thought unsinkable, but the unthinkable 鈥 an institution going to the wall 鈥 is now a genuine, if yet remote, prospect
Paul James Cardwell suggests that 鈥淯K students 鈥榤ay be barred from Erasmus after Brexit鈥欌 (Opinion, 10 August). He is right to insist on the value of Erasmus+ exchanges for UK students, in particular...
Re 鈥淩esearch in social science may well be doomed unless we act鈥 (Opinion, 10 August). Why not simply say that less research should be funded until more of it has been read properly? The main problem...
The 10 August issue of Times Higher Education had two articles the same topic 鈥 predatory journals. One, by Roger Watson (鈥淔ight fraudulent journals鈥, Opinion), offers suggestions to universities on...
In her article 鈥淥pen access monograph dash could lead us off a cliff鈥 (Opinion, 27 July), Marilyn Deegan warns of the dangers of open access monograph publishing. As head of UCL Press, the UK鈥檚 first...
In an amusing interview with John Elmes (HE&Me, News, 10 August), Stephen Milner described a 鈥渕emorable moment鈥 of his career. He related how, as a PhD student at the Warburg Institute, he had...

All the latest programme news and analysis ahead of the 2017 色盒直播 World Academic Summit, hosted by King's College London

UK needs an antidote to London dominance and toxic deindustrialisation, says John Morgan