Higher Channels
Pick of the week It’s a Shakespeare and Shaw week. On BBC2, Richard Eyre begins Changing Stages (Sunday 7.30), a six-part series about the theatre of the last hundred years, with the shadow...
Pick of the week It’s a Shakespeare and Shaw week. On BBC2, Richard Eyre begins Changing Stages (Sunday 7.30), a six-part series about the theatre of the last hundred years, with the shadow...
University of Ulster Pro-Vice-Chancellors: Jim Allen , formerly dean of the faculty of social and health sciences, becomes Pro-Vice-chancellor for student support; Richard Barnett , formerly dean of...
Deadline: 01/12/2000
(All times pm unless stated.) Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time (9.00 am R4). Discussing evolutionary psychology, with Steven Rose and Nicholas Humphrey. Crossing Continents (11.00 am R4). Ugandan rebels....
Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences Deborah Cameron , professor in languages in education at the Institute of Education, University of London, has been elected to the Academy.
(All times pm unless stated.) Natural Design (8.00 am, repeated 11.00 am, 2.00, 5.00, 8.00. BBC Knowledge). The parallels between design in evolution and manufacture. Thinking Allowed (4.00 R4)....
Goldsmiths' College, University of London Sir William Utting has been appointed head of the college's council, having been a member since 1993 and the deputy chair 1995-999. He is president of the...
(All times pm unless stated.) Ian Hislop’s School Rules (3.00 am C4). A documentary series repeat on the last 100 years of British education – how the church, state and...
(All times pm unless stated.) Composer of the Week (9.00 am R3 and rest of week) is Gesualdo. Start the Week (9.00am R4). With Anthony Gottlieb on philosophy and science; plus Rachel Bowlby, Shula...
(All times pm unless stated.) In the Psychiatrist’s Chair (11.15 am R4). Percussionist Evelyn Glennie. The Book Show (11.30 am Sky News, repeated 8.30). Including Ion Trewin, editor of Alan...
(All times pm unless stated.) How to be President (10.30 am R4). Remembering the Carter vs. Reagan election. Private Passions (12 noon R3). Philosopher-politician Bryan Magee chooses the music. The...
The position adopted by the British government in favour of the cloning of staminal cells for therapeutic purposes is one I wholly endorse ("Catholic Church vs Saviour of Childless"...
I wish to comment on David Petrie's response to coverage of the European ombudsman's decision (Letters, THES , October 13). Mr Petrie is mistaken in claiming that the ombudsman's only means of...
The delayed announcement of the second and third years of the comprehensive spending review is sending shudders of apprehension through higher education. I know ministers in the Department for...
Chancellor Gordon Brown could help higher education in his autumn pre-budget statement next Tuesday and ease industrial tensions. First, he could say something about years two and three of the...