Golden age of the don is not entirely a relic
The pay may be static, but the holidays are long, redundancies are rare and extra-curricular activities plentiful. So what do academics have to complain about? Vincenzo Raimo casts an outsider's eye...
The pay may be static, but the holidays are long, redundancies are rare and extra-curricular activities plentiful. So what do academics have to complain about? Vincenzo Raimo casts an outsider's eye...
Jonathan Sawday ("Livid and the dead", THES, April 18), did not go far enough in highlighting the plight of art and science. The human body has often been seen as a tool from which to learn. Dead or...
Richard Cockett ("Please don't mention the war", THES, April 25) handles good evidence superficially and comes to some unjustifiably simplistic and alarmist conclusions. One of his arguments, the...
A genuine debate is slowly emerging about the relationship between teaching and research in higher education (THES, April 18). It was interesting to compare the thoughts of Alan Jenkins in his...
Philip Cerny says it is not necessary to do research to be a good teacher nor is it necessary for those who want to be a teacher to work in a secondary school, even if it does allow you to take...
The decision of the Teacher Training Agency to withdraw Initial Teacher Training accreditation from La Sainte Union College (THES, April 25) is a gross injustice that reflects unfairly on the...
Crisis? What crisis"? That was my first reaction to Alan Munslow's claim that history as a discipline is facing a growing crisis of identity, a philosophical crisis of its empiricist foundations ("...
UNDERGRADUATES used to "read" for their degrees; they were not "taught". They did not even "study" for the qualification. Theirs was a student-centred activity, in the library or laboratory. They had...
THE conventional view that land, capital and labour provide the keys to economic development has been augmented by economic theories which stress that updated knowledge and skills through education...
The National Union of Students has bowed to demands from Scottish student leaders for an independent inquiry into allegations of corruption in the NUS. A motion at the recent NUS Scotland conference...
Thursday With a day's leave to hand I visit the Paula Rego exhibition at the Liverpool Tate gallery. I am stunned by the quality and range of her work. In the afternoon I go to the Alma Tadema...
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