Ruling elite shares an LSE pedigree
Sometimes one wonders about the quality of our leading historians. Correlli Barnett (THES, July 7) refers to a British ruling elite which was "Overwhelmingly . . . the product of an academic humanist...
Sometimes one wonders about the quality of our leading historians. Correlli Barnett (THES, July 7) refers to a British ruling elite which was "Overwhelmingly . . . the product of an academic humanist...
As someone who graduated in 1983 and has recently found himself back at the edge of academia, I have to say that I am shocked at the way dyslexia is now approached. Gavin Fairbairn's question about...
A recent article (THES, June 30) regarding an almost identified, particular student with mild dyslexia has caused me to worry. The article seemed badly argued and misinformed: it may have been...
Merger of the education and employment is long overdue, says matchmaker Geoffrey Holland ... but there are doubters It was not a spur of the moment decision to bring together the former Department...
Co-ordinating Student Tutoring Schemes need not cost the earth (THES, May 5). At Aston University, the scheme is expanding rapidly thanks to an innovative approach to recruiting volunteers. The...
I rejoice that Jose Harris (THES, June 30) should plug Gibbon's claim to contemporary relevance so energetically, but her reflex Oxonian sideswipes at Macaulay are to be regretted. Does not her use...
Here we go again . . . Every so often somebody resuscitates IQ tests (James Tooley, THES, July 7). I do not think that the anti-IQ lobby believes that the discipline is in disrepute due to the...
May I alert readers to the dangers of writing the opposite of what you mean when using the phrase "there is no question that"? I have found cricket commentators especially using it to assert...
Last week's Cabinet shuffle and attendant ministerial reorganisation will have major effects on post-compulsory education. Or so it will seem. 11 = /Whitehall reorganisation has been rare in 16 years...
The University of Virginia has been told by the United States Supreme Court that it must subsidise a student religious magazine in the same way as it funds other student publications. The Rosenberger...
John Hunter once said a surgeon was no more than a savage with a knife. The father of modern surgery was referring to the barber-surgeons of his day who hacked off limbs at the first sign of disease...
Danish ministry of research proposals for a tripartite research policy structure have angered the university and research community. Bent Schmidt-Nielsen, rector of the Royal Danish Veterinary and...
Colleges and universities in the United States which put their money in the Common Fund, an investment organisation specialising in higher education, have been warned that a rogue trader has caused...
Anthony Gross (THES,June 30) is to be congratulated for drawing attention to the attempts of the Battlefields Trust to preserve Tewkesbury. The trust originated largely as a result of the earlier...
What is so different about university and college governing bodies that means staff are welcome on the former but often find themselves excluded from the latter? The Committee of University Chairmen...