Choices for the chosen
Rabbi Dan Cohn-Sherbok has a proposal for a divided faith. For decades Israeli society has been under threat from the Arab world. The danger of attack is part of daily life in the Holy Land. Yet the...
Rabbi Dan Cohn-Sherbok has a proposal for a divided faith. For decades Israeli society has been under threat from the Arab world. The danger of attack is part of daily life in the Holy Land. Yet the...
Simon Targett reports on the growing popularity among students of an activity normally associated with battering brains rather than expanding them. It was a second round knockout. The Irish...
Ragnar Lofstedt looks at how France might defend its nuclear tests. France's insistence on continuing its programme of nuclear testing in the South Pacific has met with worldwide condemnation. Its...
Britain is dead, long live. . . what exactly? David Cannadine on the making of the "new British history" and its future During the election campaign for the European Parliament which was fought out...
Despite all its shortcomings, there are a few pleasant things about the French system of higher education. One of them is that this writer is never short of copy. Yesterday Le Monde carried the...
Higher education awaits with trepidation the Chancellor's Budget Statement next week. We already know we face cuts in real terms of around 25 per cent over the next three years. Further reductions in...
I am surprised by Joanna Gray's claim (THES, letters, November 17) that women academics with partners and families are less mobile than their male counterparts. When I moved across the country to my...
Sunday. Breakfast in my lovely apartment on the edge of the Grunewald in Berlin. Decide to visit the "East" on the bus. Get there and realise it is really the middle. Bratwurst by the Brandenburg...
Ron Barnett (THES, November 17) makes a number of very fair criticisms of the NCVQ consultative document on higher-level GNVQs. It is a pity that he mars these by seemingly ruling out the possibility...
We, the editors of Nations and Nationalism, were pleased that the journal was reviewed (THES, October 20). However Nations and Nationalism "is not self-consciously attempting to create a space for...
I read with interest of the intention to create the first professorships in the further education sector at Bishop Burton College, East Yorkshire (THES, November 17), with commercial sponsorships of...
Before writing an intemperate article using terms such as "scandalous", "prejudice" and "hunch", it would have been wise if Cambridge historian Simon Szreter had checked a few sources. He would have...
It is incumbent on the Higher Education Funding Council for England to state how it plans to remove the well-documented biases that arise from its choice of performance indicators for the forthcoming...
The profession may not like them but the public does. Parents and potential students are coming increasingly to rely on them. League tables are here to stay - and indeed officially sanctioned ones...
I am studying for four "hard" science A levels and was naturally alarmed by Simon Szreter's inference that my grades may be worth less than those of my peers taking "softer" subjects. I do agree that...