Brain boxer
Alumni to be proud of No. 5: "Nine credits shy of a bachelor's degree" may sound like a euphemism for the mental state of any one willing to climb into a boxing ring for even 89 seconds with Mike...
Alumni to be proud of No. 5: "Nine credits shy of a bachelor's degree" may sound like a euphemism for the mental state of any one willing to climb into a boxing ring for even 89 seconds with Mike...
Further education colleges are asking the Chancellor to invest Pounds 40 million a year in new and refurbished buildings to cope with growing student numbers. The Association for Colleges' public...
The Indians of the Amazon, remnants of advanced civilisations decimated by genocide and disease, now face extinction. Claude Levi-Strauss revisits photographs he took more than 50 years ago and muses...
(Photograph) - The pop music superstar who advised "No Guru, No Method, No Teacher" is to teach after all. Singer-song writer Van Morrison is to turn his talents to lecturing in his home territory of...
A growing number of colleges in the United States are sending graduates to the job market backed by a 12-month guarantee against a defective education. They promise future employers that if their...
Historians are launching a campaign for easier access to the archives held by former imperial powers such as Britain. The Public Record Office at Kew in London came in for particularly heavy...
In reference to "Arab call for jobs in Israel's academia" (THES, August 18), we would like to inform you that steps have already been taken to increase the number of Arab tenured academic staff in...
Dr Piercemuller, I see, takes his duties as the supervisor of PhD students as seriously as he does his other responsibilities! He is, I trust, an isolated survivor from an earlier epoch. If one thing...
Monday. Arrive in Cape Town for a five-day return visit to five South African universities. In January a number of South African universities came to see us as a good example of a multicultural...
Peter Singer's thesis about changing views of life and death (THES, August 18) is based on a fallacy - that "the traditional sanctity of life ethic" has lasted "for nearly 2,000 years". In fact this...
The public (or rather the media) is constantly squabbling about what to do with the National Lottery money (THES, August 25). What suits one section of society will never suit the rest. Camelot could...
Following the report (THES, August 11) by your Scottish editor on the comments made by Chris Masters relating to the recently revealed quality assessments, I feel that there are two points which, in...
This week's Final Word comes from an author who had an unhealthy connection with the railways: "My reason will still not understand why I pray, but I shall still pray, and my life, my whole life,...
Jeremy Black on the Fontana History of Europe series. History in your pocket. Growing up, I was very dependent for books on my local library. The shelves of Edgware library took me from Sutcliffe and...
James McNeill Whistler