Wasted talents
Identifying and educating very able children is fraught with difficulty. But higher education may provide the answer. Tony Tysome reports. Could do better." It is such a school report cliche that,...
Identifying and educating very able children is fraught with difficulty. But higher education may provide the answer. Tony Tysome reports. Could do better." It is such a school report cliche that,...
Sian Griffiths reports on the mystery surrounding the failure of a respected Muslim historian, Ayesha Jalal, to secure tenure at one of America's leading universities. Original", "very very good", "...
Identifying and educating very able children is fraught with difficulty. But higher education may provide the answer. Tony Tysome reports. Alexander Faludy's mother admits her son "stuck out like a...
He is a part-time electronic engineering student at the University of Plymouth. He is sponsored by British Aerospace. He has been awarded the City and Guilds Silver Medal for outstanding achievement...
Identifying and educating very able children is fraught with difficulty. But higher education may provide the answer. Tony Tysome reports. When Ian Murray arrived at nursery school to pick up his son...
Don't," said a particularly perceptive member of our university senate during a sombre debate on funding last week, "don't let us be trapped into thinking that there is no alternative to locally...
I respond to a bookstore like a gambler to a casino. And for many years my Las Vegas was London. Indeed, ever since my days as a postgraduate student in London, I could never sleep on the overnight...
SUNDAY. Three days to my PhD viva. I alternate between blind panic and profound gloom. Finish re-reading my thesis for the third time. Any "original contribution to knowledge" seems to have...
If your diarist (THES, February 16, Antithesis) wishes to exalt religious fervour among the Christian sects at Leicester University, he should at least get the facts right. The events diary in...
I was bemused to read Alison Utley's article which referred to the AUT's strategy to create a single union for higher education. The presumption behind the editorial was that only academic staff...
The opinions expressed by your panel of experts on the problem of population growth in the third world (THES, February 16) all rather missed the point. To argue that population growth induces...
I write in cross-sectoral support of Ruth Gee's reasonable plea for better recognition of further education (THES, February 9). Not only the sheer size of the further education student population but...
Gillian Shephard on why she has set up the review Britain's higher education system has long been acknowledged to be one of the best in the world. Over the years, it has produced thousands of men and...
Your editorial "Study The Question" (THES, February 16) encouraging a role for academia in the resolution of the conflict in Northern Ireland was at once both admirable and depressing. You were...
By one of those happy quirks thrown up by parliamentary timetables, Gillian Shephard's announcement last Monday of the Dearing committee on higher education followed on directly from Attorney General...