First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a novelist admired by Turgenev, Henry James and Queen Victoria: "Miss Brooke had that kind...
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Punters' joy sets a Bard example
A Triptych from the Russian Theatre
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Would a trip to the city heal outcast who snubs street cred?
Contemporary British Poetry and the City
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On bohos, Bonzos and urban pastorals
Bohemians
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The corps that cheated death
The Royal Marines
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A future where we see ourselves
A Brief History of Tomorrow
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Movie theory that fails to move
The Material Ghost: Films and their Medium - Watching
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Battle of the baroque hedgehog and the Gothic fox
Identity and Modernity in Latin America
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Finding a wiser use for electric currents
Echoes down the Corridor
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Tableaus glorying in sawn-off corners
Mamoun Hassan revels in the humanism of a unique film-maker. The film director François Truffaut, never one to hold back - he famously derided British cinema as a contradiction in terms - was quite...
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Laurie Taylor column
Gosh, Professor Lapping. Back so soon. You're looking well. Thank you, Maureen. I caught a little sun while catching up on essential reading by the pool. But time to get back into harness. Any urgent...
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Letter: How the screw was put in scrutiny (1)
In a letter in March, I argued for an audit scheme (Letters, THES , March 30). This idea has indeed been accepted and forms the basis of the current consultative paper. But the basic Quality...
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Letter: How the screw was put in scrutiny (2)
The resignation of John Randall as chief executive of the QAA points up the folly of abolishing the Council for National Academic Awards when the polytechnics were made universities. The CNAA was not...
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Letter: How the screw was put in scrutiny (3)
"When universities try to minimise outside scrutiny, you have to wonder what they are afraid of." Thus Liberal Democrat higher education spokesman David Rendel ("Randall's exit imperils light touch...
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Letter: How the screw was put in scrutiny (4)
The resignation of the QAA chief executive is not significant compared with the damage that may result if the plans for a severe reduction in quality assurance activity are adopted. My experience of...