Private teething trouble
THREE private universities due to start up in Spain this week arefacing difficulties, with one being forced to change its name just days before launch and two more expected to be strongly criticised...
THREE private universities due to start up in Spain this week arefacing difficulties, with one being forced to change its name just days before launch and two more expected to be strongly criticised...
Crime does not belong to the usual pile of neurotic imaginings that gnaw at our sense of wellbeing. Incomplete and imperfect, the official figures are still appalling. Theft and burglary amounted to...
Little attention has been paid to the government's decision to move funding for students of medical subjects from the Department for Education and Employment to the Department of Health. The details...
BILL GATES, chairman of Microsoft, has created a $200 million foundation to equip schools and libraries in the United States with computers and Internet connections. This week in the United Kingdom...
Jennie Bristow takes exception to the structured methods by which academics seek to break the ice in early-year seminars The beginning of a new academic year - the time when everyone teaches the same...
Students' evaluation of the courses on offer and their willingness to pay fees for them is a guarantee against dull uniformity says Quentin Thompson Britain has a higher education system which...
I AM astonished that you say in your leader (THES, October 3), that "the AUT might pause before pressing on with its campaign for a pay review body if academic staff are thereby to become in effect...
THE many and varied explanations which Anthony Lodge is reported to offer (THES, September 26) for the marked differences between the speech of executives and taxi drivers in London compared to their...
CONTRIBUTORS to The Good Teaching Guide (THES, October 3) called for change in academic teaching practices in universities and colleges. Central to any such strategy must be an understanding of what...
After God
Polyhedra
A Quest for the Code of Life
Ian Stewart on René Thom's Structural Stability and Morphogenesis. The most curious thing about the book that changed my life is that it exerted its main effects several years before it was published...
The Chivalric Vision of Alfonso de Cartagena
The Complete Perfectionist