Britain at risk of botching its ABC
Half of the country's adults remain poor readers, but Diane McGuinness argues that the governments latest literary strategy is in danger of ignoring some vital lessons. After six years of research on...
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Return of the native writers
Handbook of Twentieth-Century Literatures of India
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Orwell's every word
The Complete Works of George Orwell
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Diversity: big issue
Consultations on the Dearing committee's report, Higher Education in the Learning Society, are now closed, although late submissions are still trickling in. Next comes the report of Bob Fryer's...
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Creche barriers
A lack of childcare can limit choice for staff and students. Katrina Wishart looks at whether things have improved sinceour last survey almost a decade ago The campaign to create a nursery for...
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Fee steering into a one-way street
Universities hit the national television news last week - a rare occasion. The picture showed students walking up and down pathways outside buildings with the newscaster's voice-over. It all...
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Hungry for change
Why do people eat what they do? Researchers from across Britain have come up with different answers, reports Anne Murcott At the beginning of the 1990s, Britons were perhaps more food conscious than...
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A special class of character building
Schools and universities in the United States are trying to teach something that as yet has no place on Britain's curricula. It is called character education, and what they mean is the cultivation of...
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Care is worth a guinea or three
On reading your headline "Pounds 5.8 billion" (THES, September 20), I think a personal reflection may cast some light on this problem. At the end of a working life, I, like Virginia Woolf, ask the...
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Funding is the only issue that matters
The Dearing committee of inquiry into higher education is nearing the end of its work. As the committee struggles to agree its final report it is as well to remember why it was set up. In February...
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The storm is put back in its teacup
Intellectual Impostures
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Take some germanium and two bits of goldfoil...
Crystal Fire
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Yankee Oxfords
Importing Oxbridge
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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...