Strikers seek community service
Israeli students demanding that the government halve tuition fees are claiming support from government ministers, academics, doctors and the public. The students have been on strike for five weeks...
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Headscarf backers go to court
Turkish academics are pushing to overturn a rule introduced last month banning them from universities if they "attack" the state. An assistant at Sanurfa University in southern Turkey has already...
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Extremists push for young voters
Political extremists are taking advantage of Russia's economic crisis to attract more students in the run-up to next year's parliamentary elections. Communists, nationalists and rabble-rousers from...
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The future is science
With the Competitiveness white paper expected this month, Lord Sainsbury says we must exploit our science The economy of tomorrow will be the knowledge economy - driven by brainpower and creativity....
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Paying parents take up fight for better teaching
Teaching and research are likely to come increasingly into conflict in British universities, at least in those with a heavy concentration of research. Students and their parents are now paying...
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Roots and branches
"Ancient English selfhood" and "perpetual rootedness" - are these serious criteria for 20th-century poetry? Valentine Cunningham's advocacy of Ted Hughes over Sylvia Plath (THES, November ) resorts...
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A new dimension
Digital art is widespread in a variety of art and design disciplines, particularly in the United Kingdom's university sector - witness the growing number of courses that now include digital imaging...
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The wrong question?
In claiming that students do not use computers for course-related material John Davies (THES, November ) takes an exceedingly narrow view. Most university libraries offer on CD-rom or via the web the...
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Blue skies and critical insights
Dross, second-rate, gobbledegook, hot, hot, hot! New assessment categories, perhaps, for educational research (THES, November )? In Phil Baty's feature one of my recent papers was described as "small...
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Blue skies and critical insights
Where is the recognition that in terms of school improvement, cognitive acceleration in science education, mathematical education, formative assessment, school action research, and gender awareness,...
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Blue skies and critical insights
Your coverage of the debate surrounding educational research draws heavily on James Tooley's research, yet his work contains a number of contradictions. For example, his negative reference to one of...
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Boxing with God
I am glad that some of your respondents (THES, letters, November ) realised that I may not have been entirely serious in suggesting that genetic engineering could be used to abolish religious belief...
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Oxford values
My 18-year-old daughter, intelligent and interested, recently started studying at Oxford University. Imagine the blow to her enthusiasm when there was no mark or comment on her weekly essays at the...
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Gaitskell's girl
In my piece about Arnold Goodman (THES, November 20), a number of sentences were conflated in an unfortunate way to imply that Hugh Gaitskell's daughter told me unprovable and sensitive things about...
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Why I ...
Howard Jeffrey Director of the mentor programme at City and Islington College, London At City and Islington College we run a mentor programme for students of African, Asian and Caribbean origin, and...