Like Peter Jones in his article on classics (THES, May 19), I fear its demise through the restrictions of the national curriculum. I attended state school, studied Latin and Greek at school, went on...
It is to be hoped that more than just quantum physicists heed the message of Peter Holland (THES, May 12). Physicists, engineers, computer experts, managers, in fact many professionals seem to think...
The Majid case at London Guildhall University (THES, May 19) ought to be causing great public concern on three counts, apart from the central one of injustice to an individual. Guildhall has spent...
Discussion about higher level NVQs needs to emerge from the mire of simplistic publicity which accompanies their promotion and the parallel dismissal of any objection to them. There is a serious gap...
Improving workers' education can boost productivity more than adding tools and machinery, according to the census bureau of the United States department of education. Based on interviews with...
Madhavrao Scindia, Indian education minister, has made himself unpopular after barely two months in office because of his advocacy of private funding of universities. His "invitation" to the private...
A barrister has accused the University of Melbourne of discriminating against him for a position in its French department because he is Australian and a male. Peter Freckleton is seeking a ruling...
Those who know anything about evolutionary biology (aka Neo-Darwinism) are invariably dismayed by the tiresome claims that Brian Goodwin ("Neo-Darwinism has failed as an evolutionary theory", THES,...
Your leader (THES, May 19) seeks to compare statistics on the graduate recruitment market and salaries from a variety of sources. This does lead to problems as the surveys cover different sectors of...
The article by David Salt (THES, April 28) is highly critical of the connectionist approach to artificial intelligence. Some of his criticism of is well aimed, but connectionism is not a monolithic...
I read the article by Iain Crawford and Nicholas Barr with interest, in places not unmixed with agreement - until I reached the phrase "The Student Loan Company projects up to 490,000 defaulters by...
The news this week that agreement has been reached in principle for the formation of a single quality assessment organisation is most welcome. Now it should be possible to move forward to design a...
So junket Jerry got off with a wigging and we will never know whether what he did was a one-off or business-as-normal at Westminster. The Wiggins affair blew up just as Tory backbenchers, led...
Natfhe, the college lecturers' union, is caught in a vice. On the one hand, the Association of University Teachers looks attractive to upwardly mobile staff in new universities. On the other, the...
Republicans in the House of Representatives want to axe President Bill Clinton's national service programme which gives young people money for college in return for good deeds in the community. They...