Be warned, no one will be able to put health training together again
Scholars must join doctors and nurses to stand against the health and social care bill before it dismantles the NHS, Woody Caan says
Search
-
-
Break the supplier chains
Ucas is a monopoly that cares more about protecting universities than helping students, says Steve Edwards. It must be reorganised
-
Grant letter outlines cut in student number control limits
The government is to clamp down on over-recruitment of students by universities in order to keep costs under control, according to this year’s grant letter.
-
Nine Algorithms that Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas that Drive Today's Computers
John Gilbey welcomes clear explanations of the invisible technology in devices we use every day
-
Debating the Ethics of Immigration: Is There a Right to Exclude?
The admission or denial of entry to foreign nationals is fraught with moral dilemmas, finds Paul Scheffer
-
Lost in Transition: Ethnographies of Everyday Life after Communism
Without having lived through it first hand, it is hard to grasp the magnitude of the change to daily life in the Eastern Bloc after the collapse of the region's Communist regimes in the late 20th...
-
Memory, Trauma and History: Essays on Living with the Past
Michael Roth, the author of this exceptional and wide-ranging collection of essays, is the president of Wesleyan University, which, in addition, one imagines, to being a very time-consuming job, also...
-
A Case for Irony
James Garvey considers whether human identity is a conscious construct or for ever veiled in mystery
-
Internal Colonization: Russia's Imperial Experience
The phrases "internal colonisation" and "self-colonisation" have, through overuse, become associated with political correctness. Russia has long been both subject and object of colonisation....
-
Confronting Managerialism: How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance
All mighty historical upheavals are crises of belief and ideas. The present splitting open of neoliberal capitalism is no exception. What happens when an economic system and its political order reach...
-
Unplugged
A university does not need a charter or even walls - open minds are enough, argue groups whose challenges to convention have been invigorated by recent protest movements. Jack Grove reports
-
Attributive justice
With the best of intentions and the worst of outcomes, anonymous marking discredits lecturers and serves students badly. George MacDonald Ross believes greater trust will lead to fairness for all
-
Migrations
British art since 1500 would be a thin offering without the work of immigrant artists. It has made us what we are, says Harry Mount
-
Diary
LondonShe Stoops to ConquerCountry gentleman Hardcastle thinks his friend's son, Charles Marlow, would be the perfect match for his daughter Kate until he finds himself mistaken by his prospective...
-
The Pick - Golden Spider Silk
Golden Spider SilkVictoria and Albert Museum, London Until 5 JuneThe idea of weaving clothes out of spider silk has long been something of an eccentric fantasy.In 1710, Francois-Xavier Bon de Saint...