Vile bodies
Our thought is so obsessed with the body that it has become trapped in a carcass of its own making. Valentine Cunningham believes it is time to move on. We are all somaticists nowadays. Like Philip...
Our thought is so obsessed with the body that it has become trapped in a carcass of its own making. Valentine Cunningham believes it is time to move on. We are all somaticists nowadays. Like Philip...
John Davies discovers in these culturally relative times that even the canon in Greek and Latin is not immune to revision. There has been much debate in recent years over the worth and composition of...
SATURDAY. Hateful rain sheets down. Still, set off for Oxford to visit friend's daughters, one reading chemistry and the other English. Both have college rooms that are quite palatial compared to...
Just a nitpicking correction to the phrase quoted from Oliver Hardy in "Does the Rt Hon Lady . . ." (THES, Feb 23). It should have been "That's another fine mess you've GOTTEN me into!" Perhaps I...
To celebrate International Women's day today, The Times published a "league table", listing the 100 most powerful women in the world. While the criteria used for ranking potential candidates (...
As general elections on April 21 draw closer, political tension is mounting among Italian student groups. At Rome's La Sapienza University, a lecturer's home was fire-bombed and there have been...
Only one in three Greek university students attend sclasses regularly, according to a survey carried out by the school of philosophy of the University of Athens. The survey, based on the answers to a...
A protest by students and teachers at France's prestigious oriental languages institute is the latest twist in a long-running saga. Since 1964, its staff and pupils have been calling for more space...
The Research Assessment Exercise raises hackles everywhere. David Smith, below, argues against selectivity on efficiency and equity grounds. University departments are gearing up for the next...
The AUCL rightly points out that academic staff in the new universities and colleges receive lower pay on average than their counterparts in the old universities and that this is caused by the fact...
It would be unfair and disappointing to the ordinary members of Natfhe and the AUT to end the debate in these columns on such a note of bitter division. Each organisation should cease to defend its...
Those correspondents from the Association of University Teachers who have been confused by the Natfhe policy in higher education (Michael Leat et al, and Alan Carr, THES, March 1) should have paid...
Graeme Harper's sympathetic review of five books of recent science fiction criticism (THES, March 1) is marred by an (unintentional?) air of condescension in the final paragraph where he writes that...
Given the importance of the issues raised in "Students wary of plan to turn union into firm" (THES, February 23), I should like to clarify some aspects relating to the recommendation that the...
Dan Keohane's full and favourable review (THES, February 23) of the special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies ("A state of truce: Northern Ireland after 25 years of war" ERS, October 1995), did not...