A joint body of work
Jonathan Sawday ("Livid and the dead", THES, April 18), did not go far enough in highlighting the plight of art and science. The human body has often been seen as a tool from which to learn. Dead or...
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Our escape from Colditz
Richard Cockett ("Please don't mention the war", THES, April 25) handles good evidence superficially and comes to some unjustifiably simplistic and alarmist conclusions. One of his arguments, the...
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Research: is it essential?
A genuine debate is slowly emerging about the relationship between teaching and research in higher education (THES, April 18). It was interesting to compare the thoughts of Alan Jenkins in his...
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Research: is it essential?
Philip Cerny says it is not necessary to do research to be a good teacher nor is it necessary for those who want to be a teacher to work in a secondary school, even if it does allow you to take...
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LSU is victim of a 'gross injustice'
The decision of the Teacher Training Agency to withdraw Initial Teacher Training accreditation from La Sainte Union College (THES, April 25) is a gross injustice that reflects unfairly on the...
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Mistaken identity
Crisis? What crisis"? That was my first reaction to Alan Munslow's claim that history as a discipline is facing a growing crisis of identity, a philosophical crisis of its empiricist foundations ("...
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Bespoke tuition for today's new readers
UNDERGRADUATES used to "read" for their degrees; they were not "taught". They did not even "study" for the qualification. Theirs was a student-centred activity, in the library or laboratory. They had...
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Exploring pathways in the east
THE conventional view that land, capital and labour provide the keys to economic development has been augmented by economic theories which stress that updated knowledge and skills through education...
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NUS to get corruption inquiry
The National Union of Students has bowed to demands from Scottish student leaders for an independent inquiry into allegations of corruption in the NUS. A motion at the recent NUS Scotland conference...
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Don's diary
Thursday With a day's leave to hand I visit the Paula Rego exhibition at the Liverpool Tate gallery. I am stunned by the quality and range of her work. In the afternoon I go to the Alma Tadema...
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Hollywood lavas
Volcanoes are all the rage in Tinseltown. Tim Cornwell looks at how the studios have attempted to cloak their hokum with a veneer of academic respectability. The film Volcano opened in Los Angeles...
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Fertile dream fields
The latest low-budget feature to emerge from ߣߣÊÓƵ's film-school alumni continues a success rate young British filmmakers can only dream of. Chris Johnston reports. We were just dying to make a...
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Wave upon wave from surfers' paradise
ߣߣÊÓƵn films have achieved success around the world since the first wave of filmmakers broke through in the 1970s. Hits such as Mad Max and Picnic at Hanging Rock paved the way for recent efforts...
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The English and the others
Bernard Crick argues that we already have a quasi-federal state - it's called Britain. The current angry chauvinism springs only from English, not British, angst. Whenever I read a report of a...
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Food feuds: a safety issue to chew over
Tim Lang, Erik Millstone and Mike Rayner send a memo to the prime minister on why international experience suggests he should set up a new food agency. Now the general election has passed, the new...