Questions of degree 3
I was pleased to see Robert Burgess's comments (Soapbox, November 5) about the value of every classification of degree. This year we awarded a discretionary prize to a graduate who had barely scraped...
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Only transmit?
Frank Furedi has certainly provoked me this week (Working Knowledge, November 5). There are, of course, many academics without a qualification in "teaching" who are excellent lecturers and one reason...
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Union rules
Regarding a name for the merged Association of University Teachers and the lecturers' union Natfhe: will we eschew single-word names that sound like an online bank? Might the word "union" be included...
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Ethics, boys and girls
Ethics, boys and girls Surely it is more of a cause for celebration than regret that the majority of UK universities have managed to put up such resistance to the ill-considered movement to replicate...
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Save our staff
No one reading your article "Bullying made me feel suicidal" (Soapbox, November 5) can have failed to be moved by the plight of the writer whom you described as "a once fulfilled academic". That a...
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'Derrida may deserve some credit for trying, but less for succeeding'
Three philosophers kick off a five-page look at Derrida's legacy with thoughts on how he transformed the customs and practices of a discipline. I am ambivalent about not having been in Cambridge...
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'A luminous critical and synthetic intelligence'
Three philosophers kick off a five-page look at Derrida's legacy with thoughts on how he transformed the customs and practices of a discipline A vital measure of the influence of a thinker on a...
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Is insurrection the road to resurrection?
French cafes used to buzz with the sound of heated debate, yet many of today's travailleurs intellectuels feel they are being given the cold shoulder. Three philosophers kick off a five-page look at...
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Reflections on panache and possibility that get lost in translation
As a translator, it is hard to capture Derrida's idiom because the language he writes in is intrinsic to his meaning. Three philosophers kick off a five-page look at Derrida's legacy with thoughts on...
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Man with a mission impossible
Derrida's refusal to take short cuts or to simplify allowed him to cast a fresh eye on the familiar Three philosophers kick off a five-page look at Derrida's legacy with thoughts on how he...
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He may not rock, but he sure do ron ron
Scratching, mixing, cutting and splicing - pop musichas taken to deconstruction like a fish to water. Three philosophers kick off a five-page look at Derrida's legacy with thoughts on how he...
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The spirit of France's great revolutionary lives on
Three philosophers kick off a five-page look at Derrida's legacy with thoughts on how he transformed the customs and practices of a discipline. Derrida made it possible for us to think of philosophy...
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FE Focus: No assist from hotshots
The uneven balance of power between further and higher education partners frustrates colleges, a new survey shows. Tony Tysome writes. Many further education colleges are uneasy in their...
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FE Focus: We can't let change shortchange us
Exciting but worrying times lie ahead for colleges, John Brennan says. Qualifications for 14 to 19-year-olds will be withdrawn in 2014, as proposed by Mike Tomlinson in his report, and the new...
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FE Focus: Freedom to steer their own course
The LSC is looking at ways for colleges to break free from unequal alliances. Further education colleges could be freed from having to rely on universities to award the higher education...