Confirming prejudices
ANYONE who read Fergus Millar (THES, September 12) should consider the news item on page four ("Research inquiry sparks row"). The head of a quango handpicked by a former minister has invited the...
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Distinguishing truth from partiality
ASI understand it, postmodernist ideas make a positive contribution to intellectual life not only for all the reasons tucked away in the final paragraph of Richard Evans's caricature of the subject (...
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Distinguishing truth from partiality
WHILE Richard Evans rightly criticises some of the more idiotic pronouncements of the new hyper-relativism, he is surely being unduly belligerent and alarmist in his attitude to postmodernism. Many...
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Don's Diary
Thursday Having recently finished editing a book on child prostitution in Britain, I decided to look at the subject in Marseilles, a French city with a long history of turbulence, on the...
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Why some pleading is special
The issues confronting New Zealand universities continue to come at us thick and fast. We are not only facing an imminent "comprehensive review" - a condition that now seems obligatory for...
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Politics, principles and public relations
Why is everyone so disinclined to bite the bullet on funding further and higher education, and financing its students? Unfortunately, those to whom we might look for long-term solutions - most...
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Lecturers sceptical of training institute
Universities are to be asked to comment next week on options for a national scheme to train lecturers in the art of teaching. The Institute for Learning and Teaching proposed by Sir Ron Dearing to...
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Tighter teacher entry looms
The spectre of tougher minimum-entry requirements for all initial teacher training courses was raised this week by the parliamentary education and employment committee. Taking evidence from the...
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Lib Dems decry Pounds 165m sector 'sop'
THE Liberal Democrats have accused the Government of a third higher education U-turn by offering a "welcome sop" to universities in the form of an extra Pounds 165 million next year. Education and...
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Quick Pounds 165m spin causes contortion
In its second U-turn on higher education policy since the general election, Britain's Labour government has again softened its line, this time finding Pounds 165 million to help out English...
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All the world's a stage
Language: TEFL techniques, the Internet, class and jokes have parts to play in learning and development BRITISH schoolchildren could find it easier to learn foreign languages thanks to research by...
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New media lower barriers
Language: TEFL techniques, the Internet, class and jokes have parts to play in learning and development INCREASED use of the Internet and video-conferencing is changing English and may alter people's...
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All his own words
DID ROLY Cockman really say "fees will improve the screening process as they will deter students who do not have the ability for degree-level study"? (THES, September 5). If so, does he really...
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Directed or free inquiry?
I FOUND David Cameron's comments about the disputed Technical University of British Columbia perplexing (THES, September 5). His suggestion that the dispute is about basic versus applied research is...
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Glass and gas
(Photograph) - Carl Nordbuch, the specialist demonstrator at the University of Wolverhampton, demonstrates his skills during a practical workshop at the Contemporary Glass Society symposium hosted by...