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Swiss with a flair for languages
The School of Niklaus Wirth
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Democratic dream slips down the digital divide
Anarchy to Power
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Da Vinci dissection illuminates conception
Visual Computing
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Sanity regained but charisma lost
Electronic Texts in the Humanities
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Lesson in déjà vu for sophisticates
The Renaissance Computer
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a Marxist cricket writer: "Christopher Columbus landed first in the New World at the island of San...
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Laurie Taylor column
"Britain's public intellectuals have been replaced by the safe university expert" - THES, October 5 . Andy Williams with "Can't Get Used to Losing You". This is drive-time classic hour on Poppleton...
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Letter: Clinical cavity
Medical and dental students must understand the structure and function of the human body in order to understand and treat disease ("Final-year medical students not ready for wards", THES , October 5...
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Letter: Para-training
In debates about foundation degrees and the government's desire to foster them (Analysis, THES , September 28), teaching assistants are a particularly good group to consider. The government also...
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Letter: Dearing, do... (1)
The government's rethink of student support is a welcome return to the recommendations of the 1997 Dearing report ("Student cash in melting pot", THES , October 5). The criteria we used were that any...
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Letter: Dearing, do... (2)
Peter Lampl contends that "rich students should pay the full cost of tuition fees to subsidise poor undergraduates" ("Lampl: fee system is rigged", THES , October 5), but there are few rich students...
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Letter: Back off, Baroness
May I object to Mary Warnock's statement: "Seeking to avoid a tendency to obesity, to alcoholism, to aggression or to homosexuality may seem little less acceptable than seeking to avoid disease". ("A...
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Letter: Personality split
Jane Ayres is sceptical that compulsory teaching qualifications for further education tutors will raise standards ("The power of personality", THES , September 21). While I agree that some inherent...
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Letter: Too busy obeying to challenge (1)
Frank Furedi paints too rosy a picture of the United States and too bleak a picture of the United Kingdom. He also overlooks a distinctive British opportunity for cultivating public intellectuals ("...