Siren for all time born of a swan egg
Helen of Troy
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A warrior for womankind
The Ann Oakley Reader
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The bare bones of a life of mini miracles
Discovering Dorothea
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From the Voyage Out to the ego's world within
Virginia Woolf
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One corner of a female field that was for ever England
Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print
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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 classic drama about a man who goes to the devil: "Unsteady shapes, who early in the past/ Showed in...
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Laurie Taylor Column
Ah, Maureen, there you are. Still coping? One does one's best, Professor Lapping. Maureen, I'd like you to send a top-priority e-mail to all members of department drawing their attention to the...
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'Chucking children who can't swim into deep water to see which of them drowns soonest is no way to behave'
It used to be said that the first sign that you are getting old is when police officers seem awfully young. The proof that it's really happened is that retiring permanent secretaries and funding...
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Leader: Small changes may presage seismic shifts
Behind the sighs of relief over this week's student application figures from Higher Education Minister Bill Rammell and other supporters of top-up fees, there should be at least a little...
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Spelling out the real problems 1
I was disappointed at the hyperbole of your headline "Tutors in despair at illiterate freshers" (February 10) and the subsequent coverage. By selecting seven short and emotive quotations from the 250...
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Spelling out the real problems 2
Your report on illiterate freshers reveals what teaching staff have been saying for years. Many factors degrade the student learning experience. These include inadequate basic skills, a culture of...
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Spelling out the real problems 3
Students entering university today have a very different skill base compared with those of even ten years ago, and their social and educational experience is different from that of those who are...
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Spelling out the real problems 4
You miss out one key contribution that academe can make to wiping out the alleged escalation of illiteracy. English is the only major world language (apart from Chinese) where you often cannot work...
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Spelling out the real problems 5
Are the academics (and business leaders) who fulminate against the literacy skills of today's undergraduates the same ones who built their careers on peddling obscurantist drivel, aided by those...
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Driven mad 1
It is all very well for Andrew Oswald to state that "People design their lives the way they want" ("Got a space to think but no space for your car?", February 10). But many people cannot. I spent...