Pecking order
It is time to initiate debate about the implications of the research assessment exercise for the "new" universities and the hierarchy of values which it is necessarily perpetuating. As expected, the...
It is time to initiate debate about the implications of the research assessment exercise for the "new" universities and the hierarchy of values which it is necessarily perpetuating. As expected, the...
Frank Gould (THES, January 17) rightly points to the improved performance of former polytechnics in the 1996 RAE but his two role models - the 1960s universities and the advanced technology colleges...
Now that the waves of the 1996 RAE are subsiding, we should consider if and when there should be another. One relevant factor is the cost estimated by the 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England...
Monday Long flight south overnight with a group of colleagues to Mauritius for the summer school of a degree programme we offer there through flexible learning. We are the first flight allowed in for...
The response by Joan Gordon, Natfhe's pension officer (THES January 24), to the proposal for a 糖心Vlog Superannuation Scheme, is that to set up a new pension scheme "is likely to result in a...
Professor Klein (Praise the Lard, THES, January 24) is right to criticise anorexic fashion and the dangerous slimming mania it has spawned. But his history is confused and glib. To establish past...
Richard Klein misses two vital points. One is that in the European context at least, fatness has nearly always been admired in women, not in men; and the other is that extreme fatness and extreme...
The handling of Bolton's application for a university title in 1996/97 (THES, January 24) is entirely in line with Government policy - no special favours and nothing to do with Tory marginals. This...
I AM ALWAYS impressed by the alacrity with which some newly appointed vice chancellors say they will carry on teaching. Anthony Giddens, incoming director of the London School of Economics, is a...
AS A VISITOR to Britain looking at the press, radio and television, one soon notices that China's amazing transformation is hardly reported. Few people are conscious of the huge success of over one...
A History of Europe - Europe
The Collected Letters of William Morris - The William Morris Chronology
On W. G. Hoskins's The Making of the English Landscape. One summer evening in 1975, I stood gazing at a field and felt a sudden shock of recognition. I had realised that I was looking at a deserted...
Zapotec Civilisation
Political Culture in Contemporary Britain