Viva Spain's king of the republicans
Paradoxically, Spain has a monarch to thank for steering it away from authoritarianism after Franco, historian Paul Preston tells Huw Richards in the first of a series examining democracies around...
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Can new neighbours tell Slovenia from Slovakia?
Like many Western Europeans, Silvio Berlusconi, could not distinguish between countries in Eastern Europe. Wendy Bracewell wonders how things will change as the EU expands From May 1, the European...
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Siblings, power play and family
Children's life choices can be influenced by not only parents and peers but also brothers and sisters, as experts are now recognising. Olga Wojtas reports. As the US presidential election heats up,...
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Freedom is ... the latest mobile
Ten years after the end of apartheid, South Africa's 'Born Free' generation are colour-blind, confident, brand-obsessed consumers, writes Karen MacGregor. "South African kids are sick of negativity...
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'They expect me to make life easier'
The widening access agenda panders to the idea that students are customers and undermines the whole point of higher education, argues Frank Furedi. When I ask a small group of recently appointed...
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Buy a vanload of beer on autoroute to learning
The head of the University of the M25 wants a foothold on the Continent. Ted Prince attended the meeting that launched the Calais campus Our bid for global domination was announced when the vice-...
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Who says that looks don't matter?
If virtual learning environments are to appeal to art and design students, their appearance should merit as much attention as their content and pedagogy. Jonathan Baldwin explains. Artists and...
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Blog your way to a bright new future
Simply putting written materials online for students to read does not make for a constructive e-earning environment. As Olga Wojtas reports, it requires a totally new approach. Have you ever wondered...
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Access as the norm
A tick-box approach to accessibility is unlikely to work in practice, say Neil Witt and David Sloan. Students with disabilities should be involved in developing e-learning as part of a holistic...
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Laurie Taylor column
University teaching reforms risk destroying the learning experience for students by forcing academics to adhere to a rigid lecturing style - Times Higher, April 23 Good Morning. Today's lecture is...
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Glory days of dual support over
It would be wrong to claim that the dual-support system has not served the needs of the UK science and engineering research base well since its inception. But is the separate allocation of research...
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Peerless problems 1
Should pieces in The Times Higher be peer-reviewed? Academics generally accept that the process, at minimum, provides a basic certification of accuracy and, at best, substantially improves the...
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Peerless problems 2
Richard Drayton's characterisation of empires as beginning "in the subordination of one community to a power that has a monopoly on legitimate violence within a frontier" derives from hindsight....
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Let the visitor go
My question to the universities listed in The Times Higher as wanting to retain their university visitor ("17 deal blow to ombudsman", April 16), is: Have you not read the papers? Research student...
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In praise of patriotism
I take it that your headline "Beware totalitarians among us" (Letters, April 23) refers subliminally to the three authors of the letters it heads rather than to the two objects of their prejudiced...