Higher channels
John Davies gives the broadcasting output a quality audit (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week. John Harvey Jones, whose Troubleshooter series in the late 1980s helped focus popular...
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Academia go f**k yourself
In his latest novel, David Mamet sets his sights on literature teachers and universities, which, he tells Jennifer Wallace, 'exist independent of any possible utility'. I lovingly think of higher...
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A nanny no, a Medusa...maybe
Next month, the University of Buckingham is holding a conference on thelife and influenceof Margaret Thatcher, its first chancellor. Left, David Marsland discusses Thatcherism's intellectual legacy,...
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'Play "Let It Be" or I'll scream all night'
Want the definitive answer to the nature vs nurture question? Just tune into TV show Child of Our TimeI for the next 18 years. Anne Sebba reports. Ten years ago, Steve Evans was a British Telecom...
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Face-saving measures
One in 700 US babies has a facial defect. Genetic therapy is offering them hope, reports Steve Farrar from the Amerucan Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting. The British sea...
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Ancient interests
Recent discussion about the Scottish MA illustrates the chaotic state of academic terminology. When, four decades ago, I graduated from the University of Edinburgh as a master of arts, after a four-...
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Toy stories and toxic monsters
Two researchers, one from the Greenpeace research laboratories at the University of Exeter, were given the opportunity to report on their research on PVC toys leading to policy changes in the...
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In brief
I was greatly cheered to see David Blunkett's plans for setting up an e-university ("Britain flies e-university flag", THES, February 18) but he ought perhaps to check on the use of names first....
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In brief
If scientific evidence contradicts the existence of David, Solomon and ancient Israel, it would certainly be difficult to sustain a belief in some very important historical premises of Judaism ("...
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Foolish divide
The article on John Wood (Teaching, THES, February 18) is the perfect illustration of the folly of perpetuating the divide between vocational and academic education. Designers of the new foundation...
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My family and other animals
Controversial philosopher Peter Singer spoke to Kam Patel about ethics, vegetarians and his mother's Alzheimer's disease. There can be few more controversial living thinkers than the philosopher...
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Supertext: The textbook that changed my life
I was at Essex University in the mid-1970s and like many English students felt bewildered and not a little intimidated by French Theory. At that time it had a close connection with Marxism and the...
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History that improves with age
The complete revision of a history book, first published in I959 and widely used as a textbook on both sides of the Atlantic, is bound to be a daunting task. I had made minor changes to The Age of...
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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 Pulitzer prizewinning novel: " To the red country and part of the grey country of Oklahoma the last...
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All Souls can't speak to all souls
The First and the Last - First and Last Things