Time for your history lesson, prime minister
History must set out its stall to policy-makers to persuade political advisers that it is perilous to neglect the past or to rely on Timewatch when you are trying to influence the future. Karen Gold...
History must set out its stall to policy-makers to persuade political advisers that it is perilous to neglect the past or to rely on Timewatch when you are trying to influence the future. Karen Gold...
Universities have been accused of exploiting work-study, which aims to help students pay education costs in return for work in the public interest. Stephen Phillips reports Providence, Rhode Island,...
Will the new ÌÇÐÄVlog Policy Institute be just an arm of the funding councils? asks Stephen Court, who takes a look at the education work of Britain's think-tanks In the world of higher...
Beverley Milton-Edwards, winner of the LTSN/ THES e-tutor award, found herself ambushed in a virtual world when she put Middle East politics online Sometimes teaching Middle East politics in a place...
Essex researchers are determined to make buildings more intelligent - but watch out, they could make your computer disappear. Sue Sharples explains Intelligent buildings" have existed for years -...
Alan Ayckbourn has written more than 60 plays and directed many others. Now a year teaching modules on the theatre has inspired him to reveal his skills in a 'how-to' book. Oliver Double gets a few...
New Zealand's answer to Simon Schama, Jamie Belich, has been busy exploding historical myths of a dull, unemotional nation. Huw Richards reports on his latest study - how 'Angloworld' developed Being...
Tony Gardiner's argument against the recommendations of recent reports on science and maths education ("Policy does not add up", THES , September 6), to one of which I acted as adviser, displays such...
Claire Sanders's report ("Search for the formula to put the spark in science", THES , September 6) rightly highlights some of the major issues facing higher education in attracting students into...
The advice given by Rowena Murray in her book How to Write a Thesis ("A racy remedy for PhD writers' block", THES , September 6) is not as ridiculous as it first sounds. There is a misbelief that...
Your report on the London Institute ( THES , September 6) refers to "several small arts institutions with university college status". There is, in fact, only one specialist arts university college in...
How I despair when I hear opinions on disability such as those expressed by Peter Lumsden ("Why I believe there are limits on what universities can do to deal with disability", THES , August 23). In...
Your feature on student mental-health issues ("Academe gets in the right frame of mind", THES , August 30) refers to a ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England-funded project at Lancaster...
During the Gulf war, when I was doing my doctoral fieldwork in New Caledonia, the Kanak population were generally sympathetic towards Saddam Hussein ("If war is not the answer, what is?" THES, August...
Further to your article "Student agents aid illegal entry" ( THES , September 6), it would be wise to point out that international offices within British universities do generally have a very...