Brutality management
As the carnage in Bosnia ends, Richard Clogg asks if there are lessons in an earlier episode of ethnic engineering. Twenty miles of carts I with exhausted, staggering men, women and children,...
As the carnage in Bosnia ends, Richard Clogg asks if there are lessons in an earlier episode of ethnic engineering. Twenty miles of carts I with exhausted, staggering men, women and children,...
Joanna Gray and E. Stina Lyon (THES, November 17) highlight gender issues raised by the research assessment exercise, but both may have underestimated its contribution to the emergence of "new...
Anthea Millett explains the Teacher Training Agency's proposals for reform. The recent launch of a consultation paper on the future funding of initial teacher training met with a disappointing...
Two of the four letters responding to my article (Personal View, THES, November 17) on the national scandal of disparate A-level grades in different subjects, referred with great confidence to "...
I waited with increasing frustration for Simon Szreter to entertain the notion that those studying for A levels in the hard sciences and in languages might be more likely to achieve high grades...
Simon Szreter's view on A level grades is an astonishing misuse of statistics. He argues that, because a higher proportion of A-level candidates gain A and B grades in some subjects than in others,...
They will be dancing in the streets of the Chinese capital Beijing tonight, as they do every night. There will be long, sinuous serpentine dragon dances in the quiet squares, and, in the underpasses...
Day one. Picnic breakfast in Moscow's Belgrad Hotel, en route to Crimea '95 conference on libraries in a transient world, with generous support from British Council. Join ten other delegates from the...
As we contemplate yet another deeply disappointing public expenditure settlement, university and college staff throughout the United Kingdom must be wondering just what they have to do to recreate...
Palaeontologist turned politician Richard Leakey makes no bones about corruption in his beloved Kenya. Aisling Irwin reports. I have been accused by the president of Kenya of being a racist and of...
John Redwood tells Martyn Kelly why he decided not to become a historian. In 1976 a young historian wrote about the effect of the age of Enlightenment on the political and religious establishment of...
A former Nigerian foreign minister and academic this week accused the military regime of General Sani Abacha of punishing the country's universities to prevent them becoming the focus of dissent....
Funding chiefs are to investigate the extent of the "democratic deficit" in the governing bodies following a survey finding that some institutions have excluded staff and students from their...
Rumours of the possible merger of the higher and further education funding councils have set alarm bells ringing in both the college and university sectors. Ruth Gee, chief executive of the...
(Photograph) - Three forms: Plymouth University student Alison Crews admires a bronze by Dame Barbara Hepworth, unveiled earlier this month to mark the opening of the university's latest building...