The Bible bashers
Keith Whitelam explains to Simon Targett that the Jewish version of the Old Testament is a fiction designed to legitimise Israel and that the history of the Palestinian people has been silenced....
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Reality of ancient Israel
Keith Whitelam explains to Simon Targett that the Jewish version of the Old Testament is a fiction designed to legitimise Israel and that the history of the Palestinian people has been silenced....
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The heavy lid of the Mitterrand years
Asked in 1974 if he would vote for Mitterrand, Jean-Paul Sartre replied: "The problem is not to replace . . . I forget his name . . . ah, yes! Pompidou with Mitterrand. Mitterrand will be the...
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Jury out in the cold on science
Scientists must foster the public's trust in order to improve understanding of their work, argues John Durant In the midst of unprecedented scientific and technological progress our culture is beset...
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The chattering sexes
All-male and all-female groups converse differently. While women's voices combine and overlap, men take it in turns to hold court. Jennifer Coates explains Having friends is something most of us take...
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Regents' shot echoes
The story of affirmative action at the University of California is still continuing. The shot fired by the embattled farmers of the American Revolution was heard round the world. The Board of Regents...
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More cuts among the red herrings
Now that the full implications of the Budget statement have had time to sink in, the reality seems even grimmer than before and it is worth spelling out exactly why. For 1996/97 the Higher Education...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. Plant collecting in Ethiopia with Discovery Expeditions leads me on a mini-expedition to the Simien Mountains National Park, leaving some specimens drying in their presses in a tent at base...
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Buddy, can you spare a fee?
Fees to pay or not to pay? Stephen Romer sounds a note of warning on the US experience Influential parties in United Kingdom higher education are beginning to think the unthinkable: students will...
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Ignorance is not written on a CD-Rom
So: modern students find reading books irksome and challenging, finds Vincent Mitchell (THES, December 22). This is terrible news. It clearly requires a radical solution. Mitchell has one: books are...
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Faithfully yours?
Faint words or staunch heart? Roger Iredale on the British Council's attempt to quell criticism of its dual role as higher education's advocate and competitor The end of December saw the publication...
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Slow to criticise
It transpires from Sir Michael Atiyah's 1995 presidential address to the Royal Society (Perspective, THES, January 5) that the society has at long last awoken to the dangers of anti-science. What a...
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One God against the odds
On the basis of his article "From the laboratory to the inventor", (THES, January 12) Richard Swinburne's forthcoming book, Is there a God?, is unlikely to ask what is surely the central question,...
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Pedalling hard not soft on NVQs
Alan Smithers claims a third of the evaluation advisory group share his view that last week's report on the top 100 national vocational qualifications "soft pedalled" (THES, January 12). All members...
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Regions of doubt
Roger King (Letters, THES, January 12) objects to my warning that the development of universities with a strong regional emphasis could lead to unhealthy rivalry for students. While I welcome the co-...