Tiger burning bright
Now that the dust has settled on the Malaysian general election it is possible to take stock of how the country is faring in its race to join that highly successful group known as the tigers of the...
Now that the dust has settled on the Malaysian general election it is possible to take stock of how the country is faring in its race to join that highly successful group known as the tigers of the...
Saturday. Try to resist ethnic stereotyping as I wait patiently in the queue for passport control at Sheremetyevo airport, having arrived on time thanks to Lufthansa. Begin to adjust to Russian...
Mark Pagel ("Speaking Your Mind", THES, July 7) sets out some important reasons why we should prize the world's current diversity of living languages. It is true that the process of learning a...
Sports scholarships should only be awarded to those also able enough to do a degree, argues Huw Richards Perhaps the first task of Roger Bannister's working party on sports scholarships should be to...
Regarding "Perspective" (THES, July 14), I do not suffer from "chronic metaphysical fear of death". Does this mean by John Webester's argument that my early demise would not harm me? M. J. PHYTHIAN...
Karen Mac Gregor's article (THES, May 19) on doctors leaving South Africa, perpetuates a perception rather than reporting established facts. A study, published in the South African Medical Journal in...
Norman Dombey, in dispute with his vice chancellor, asks whether the ancient office of visitor can copewith today's conflicts. The University College of Sussex Ltd. was established as a limited...
How refreshing to find Peter Richards, of the rapidly evolving Imperial College School of Medicine (THES, July 7), questioning "how far a large school was good for undergraduate teaching". The...
What Mark Corner says about the Charles University in Prague ("Waiting for the Czech" THES, July 14) sounds so familiar to me after my own two years there in the late 1970s that I do not doubt its...
The merger of the Employment Department with the Department for Education has raised issues and unearthed prejudices. As Geoffrey Holland writes "unless the two are integrated, the change is not...
Geoffrey Holland is right to point out that a key feature of the Department of Employment's structure that will be inherited by the new combined department is the regional office network. The...
One doesn't have to be a member of the great and the good to agree with Baroness Warnock's analysis of the confusion between education and training. When the former polytechnics became universities...
As an ex-DFE official who supported many of Geoffrey Holland's ideas about the relationship between education and employment, perhaps I might enter the debate between him and Mary Warnock (THES, July...
Last week, in an airy lecture theatre at a university in the South West of England, a gathering of experts on the Gulf region was deprived of the opportunity to listen to a colleague speaking from...
It is not THES policy to carry anonymous articles. Academic life depends for its vitality on robust exchange of views, opinions, information and ideas without fear or favour and we expect people to...