Greenwich bids for Naval site
The University of Greenwich launched its bid this week for the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, saying that its cost savings on other sites would pay for work on the college. The university would...
The University of Greenwich launched its bid this week for the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, saying that its cost savings on other sites would pay for work on the college. The university would...
Lucy Hodges meets Paul Muldoon, the Heaney acolyte who wants to rearrange furniture in our heads. Paul Muldoon looked a bit the worse for wear. He was on a poetry-reading tour of the United Kingdom,...
Theologian Andrew Linzey believes that Christians have got it terribly wrong about animals for the past 2,000 years. Aisling Irwin hears his arguments. God might have saved his creatures a lot of...
Britain's part in funding the huge telescopes capable of viewing the surfaces of stars boosts our scientific prestige, argues John Meaburn The Hubble Space Telescope is arguably the most ambitious...
Anton Gill sketches the life of William Dampier, an explorer to rank with Raleigh and Drake but also a privateer and pirate who died in obscurity. William Dampier figures in a footnote of a book...
It is 20 years next week since Franco gasped his last and relinquished his hold on Spain. But although his democratic successors have been accused of corruption, Huw Richards finds little desire in...
Trust has become the buzzword of the decade, and with good reason. Sometimes it feels as if you cannot trust anyone. You cannot trust the streets to be safe, cannot trust your employer not to lay you...
Having been on a sabbatical from teaching (1994/95) in favour of research and writing, I thought that, after 15 months away, I would be longing to return to the classroom. And yet, as summer vacation...
Sunday. Early arrival in Johannesburg on a packed BA plane. Met by a University of South Africa (UNISA) staff member from the Research Institute for theology and religion where I am to speak later in...
Mike Nellis's proposal for a criminology-driven "stand alone" probation diploma is fatally flawed. The status and quality of university criminology teaching is quite as variable as social work...
In his article on probation training (THES, November 3) Mike Nellis is correct to assert that probation training should remain within higher education. However, his view that the arguments against...
Helena Kennedy's excellent article raises some crucial issues pertinent to the invisibility of women in senior university posts. The stock response of many of the male academics who continue to...
In her article on the shortage of female professors, "Prisoners of Gender" (THES, November 3), Helena Kennedy raises many important points, yet fails to tackle the key issues. As long as universities...
I find myself time and time again at odds with the deep conservatism that begins to appear more and more like a virus infecting clerics who work in institutions of higher education in Britain. I am...
Re the figures on university earnings in 1993/94 (THES, November 3). The commentary contains a serious error. It states that universities' income "has been supplemented by the increasing amount of...