Satanic disabuser
The Freud of her generation or a logical, objective academic? Celia Kitzinger meets anthropologist Jean La Fontaine, author of a controversial report into satanic abuse. Anthropologists are not used...
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Between vision and enquiry
John Newton recollects what it was like to be taught by the two mutually hostile giants of English literary criticism, F. R. Leavis and Harold Mason. No man can serve two masters." A few people have...
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Anna of grand fables
How did the daughter of a German-Polish factory worker who didn't speak Russian convince people she was the child of Tsar Nicholas II? Because, says John Klier, the public wanted to believe in...
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Common health games
Universities should stop pandering to a small elite of athletes and instead promote fitness for the masses by scrapping playing fields in favour of multipurpose indoor sports centres, argues Richard...
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Common health games
"Sport for all is important, but helping the elite and developing excellence is also important. There's always a balancing act, but I don't think the British Universities and Colleges Physical...
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Common health games
"It's very difficult for most universities to put forward a rugby squad to compete at the highest level, because the best players are going to toddle back to wherever their first call is. "But in...
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Common health games
"I endorse the idea of catering for as many people as possible. Obviously we would encourage outstanding talent if it's there, but we're very much into fitness and health for everyone. Any student...
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Common health games
"Birmingham University has produced five of the 1994-95 England women's lacrosse team, and three senior men's hockey internationals last year. But for 55 years it has been supporting sport for the...
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Common health games
"You can call the academy we are planning elitist if you want, but that doesn't worry me. I don't think there is anything wrong with being very good. "The point of the academy is that at 18 there are...
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Beware the Iron Law of Elitism'
It cannot have escaped anybody's attention that students are becoming both relatively and absolutely impoverished. First grants were frozen, and then they were cut, leaving most with too little for...
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Don's Diary
Monday. First day as London regional official for the Association of University Teachers: new job, new home, new city. As you would expect, I feel totally at ease with this situation. There is a...
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Blur-ed view
I note that your issue of August 18 carries considerable coverage of the A level results. How are we supposed to evaluate this if we do not know how many A levels Blur and Oasis have got? TOM M....
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Dark nights of soul stop flood
I was fascinated to read of the "Fears over flood of racism cases" (THES, August 11). The fear might at least serve as a discipline over those institutions or departments with an overbearing attitude...
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Let the Yugoslavs fight their civil war
The fact that the United States Congress voted for arming the Bosnian Muslim government should make "leftists" like Bob Lentell (THES, August 18) think that maybe Bosnia is not such a good cause. We...
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The new model university for the Millenium
Ray Cowell argues that seminal developments in recent years amount to re-inventing the role of institutions. The international debate on the future of higher education ranges over a perplexing number...