Competition's bleeding edge
The benefits of information technologies are being distorted by crude market values that will damage academic culture, David Allen and Tom Wilson argue. We are told that the use of information...
The benefits of information technologies are being distorted by crude market values that will damage academic culture, David Allen and Tom Wilson argue. We are told that the use of information...
DESIRING PRACTICES. "Desiring Practices" is a series of free architecture and design exhibitions being held in London and highlighting the importance of gender roles in new practices in architecture...
Despite his years of exile, years of eternal opposition promises and everlasting government cuts, one thing has remained a constantin Ged Martin's academic life... The scene is the staff common room...
Do not put today's Synthesis: Buildings and Estate Management in the bin unread. These are your working conditions it is talking about. This is also what "managerialism" in universities is about,...
A 72-year-old Nobel laureate has been accused of sexually molesting a minor, one of 54 boys he looked after from Papua New Guinea. A journal he kept during his time in the tropics might lend some...
Friday. After reading the most important sections of The THES - the job ads, Laurie Taylor, Antithesis - turn to Don's Diary, only to read yet another academic's account of his voyage abroad to some...
Gail Vines meets Theresa Marteau, a health psychologist committed to exploring the consequences of giving people the information uncovered by genetic testing. Talk to Theresa Marteau about the "...
Translation has always been recognised as a difficult endeavour. There is an old Italian saying "traduttore, traditore", which equates it to treason. This is because every word is spoken or written...
Royal Commissions have been as rare as England Test cricket victories in recent years. They did not fit with 1980s anti-consensus politics. Certainly education did not rate one. It fell therefore to...
A university dean who has never visited a murder scene and has eyesight so poor he cannot even read a signed confession is now the best-known homicide expert in the US. Tim Cornwell reports....
Part SEVEN: the story so far ... In his phone call to registrar Dennis Strood, Henry tells him to leave his office door unlocked over the weekend. On the way to the break-in, he tells Toni that...
THURSDAY. "Bore Da. Bwrdd Yr Iaith Gymraeg. Welsh Language Board." Even though I have heard these words on several occasions, I am taken aback since it is unusual to hear anything other than English...
Part EIGHT: the story so far... Henry has Toni write the lead story for University Focus, exposing the dead student fraud. Before sending the proofs to the printer, he puts Toni's byline on the story...
There must be a better entrance system, says concerned parent Brian Everett. I am a parent of a teenager whose results came yesterday. For many A-level students August 17 will have brought good news...
Mike Holderness finds a deeper message in the fun of electronic learning. You might say (OK, I will say) that the new playful semi-irreverent banter found on this Internet discussion list will save...