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Cultural studies has failed, Colin MacCabe tells John Davies. Cultural studies has failed. Or so Colin MacCabe, head of research and education at the British Film Institute claims. He has identified...
Cultural studies has failed, Colin MacCabe tells John Davies. Cultural studies has failed. Or so Colin MacCabe, head of research and education at the British Film Institute claims. He has identified...
Edward Said's Orientalism, and Culture and Imperialism have had a far better press than they deserve. While both suffer from serious methodological and conceptual shortcomings, in Orientalism Said is...
Frederick Crews makes a number of basic factual errors in his "triumphalist" critical attack on psychoanalysis. First, he makes the absurd assumption that clinical psychoanalysis has not changed...
In Frederick Crews's splendid article (THES, March 3) dealing with the responses to his attack on Freud, he comments that his original essay continues to attract more attention than all of his...
The Government would like to see a shift in the balance between full-time and part-time study. The rationale is transparent: under current arrangements, more students can be educated at a lower cost...
Your reporter was right to draw attention to the widespread academic and trade union opposition to the proposed abolition of university-based training for probation officers (THES, March 3). The...
James Fawcett says science must continue to educate. Scientists do science to make discoveries. In order to do so they have to spend money, much of it coming from the taxpayer. But why should...
Mek Weerakoon's letter on student grants and funding (THES, March 3) was particularly poignant since each week I and my college registrar have to meet with distraught students and discuss their...
Alistair MacFarlane argues for a radical approach to research funding. The review of the dual support system which has been initiated by the Office of Science and Technology is of great potential...
Fawzi Ibrahim's attack on Acas (Letters, THES, March 3) is astonishing. Mr Ibrahim is certainly not writing on behalf of the national executive of Natfhe, he is simply putting his own view. As one of...
It used to be the ultimate achievement to have a room looking on to the lawn that stretches from the classical Rotunda designed by Thomas Jefferson at the University of Virginia in the United States...
Among observers of the national political scene in Canberra, Simon Crean is listed as a future prime minister, remarkable progress for somone who entered parliament in 1990. Former prime minister Bob...
Academic staff are threatening to boycott the transfer of university degrees to New Zealand's qualifications framework unless they are involved in the administrative structure. The Association of...
This week's Final Word comes from a succinct scientist: "However, if we do discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists....
Martin Holmes on Andre Glyn and Bob Sutcliffe's British Capitalism, Workers and the Profits Squeeze . The early 1970s was an intellectually exhilarating time to be an undergraduate student of...