Re-siting history
I hope that with its commitment to lifelong learning, the Labour government will set up a central focus for socialist and labour history resources, currently spread between the Modern Records Centre...
I hope that with its commitment to lifelong learning, the Labour government will set up a central focus for socialist and labour history resources, currently spread between the Modern Records Centre...
We were surprised to read in the article on further education and higher education mergers that no higher education exists in Ripon in North Yorkshire ("Do you take this college to be your lawful...
In his lively and interesting account of the discussion on ageing between the Royal Society and the British Academy (THES, May 23), Jon Turney gets one or two things wrong. He perpetuates the error...
You state (THES, May 30) that the School of Education 'is to withdraw from undergraduate courses in secondary education". There is no such formal recommendation. There is a large-scale consultation...
Is it correct to refer to Bill Clinton as a "graduate" of Oxford? (THES May 16). I thought that Clinton did not pass his exams. Or, if you accept the more charitable (and no doubt doctor-spun)...
The recent announcement of the chairman of the new Qualifications and Curriculum Authority seems to confirm that in this area at least we can expect continuity of policy rather than change. The new...
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a novelist who died in 1991: "Gerald Middleton was a man of mildly but persistent depressive...
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council The president of the board of trade has appointed the following to serve on the council: Wendy Hall, professor of computer science in the department...
University of Aberdeen Graeme Simpson, formerly business analyst and business opportunities group manager with Esso Exploration and Production UK Ltd. has been appointed to the first Schlumberger...
University of Wales DLitt: Anthony Conran, poet, translator and literary critic; Geraint Gruffydd, emeritus professor, director of the University of Wales centre for advanced Welsh and Celtic studies...
Car design guru James Randle tells Kam Patel how his taste for speed has been overtaken by concerns about pollution of the planet James Neville Randle leans back in his chair and laughs as he...
The Origin of Language - The Language Connection
Trial of Strength
Bosnia by Television
George Ball