Battle of the dons of war
Inspired by his grandfather's time in the trenches, Niall Ferguson attacks the academics who sent students to their deaths The first world war was a catastrophe for all Europe. It also devastated...
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Commission impossible
Lord Jenkins's report on electoral reform was published yesterday, but it simply confirms that there is no such thing as a perfect system, writes David Butler Margaret Thatcher did not like using...
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It is time to ask whether ww1 was worth so many deaths
My grandfather had just turned 16 when the first world war broke out. The recruiting sergeant believed him when he lied about his age, but before the formalities of enlistment could be completed his...
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Double speak
What's the best way to teach a second language? Alan Thomson reports on a debate that has occupied academics for over 40 years How people learn a second language is the subject of a 40-year-old...
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Higher channels
Stay media-literate with John Davies's weekly radio and television round-up. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Geology gets the blockbuster treatment in BBC2's ambitious new series Earth...
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Disability, dishonesty and maths
By focusing on the assessment, Frank Furedi fails to consider the barriers to learning encountered by disabled students. Those prepared to identify themselves as disabled will encounter...
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Disability, dishonesty and maths
Frank Furedi is concerned students are spuriously claiming to be disabled so they can get "special treatment" in examinations. The problem lies with universities. Many universities do not have proper...
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Disability, dishonesty and maths
I am grateful to Frank Furedi. Despite his thinly disguised scepticism, he has convinced me that the difficulties almost all second-year physics students experience with the mathematics have nothing...
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Media inflation
In my piece ("Don't knock the messengers", THES, October 16) defending media studies from the ravages of journalistic antipathy, I too became a victim. The article gives the impression that I...
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Restore the balance
We should not sound too apocalyptic a note on teacher training ("Teacher training crisis deepens", THES, October 16). The situation is not one of terminal collapse but of progressive instability. We...
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Restore the balance
Far from planning to "withdraw teacher training courses", the University of Hertfordshire places continuing development in the full range of its teacher education provision as a high priority in its...
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Restore the balance
Manchester Metropolitan University is committed to its full range of initial teacher training courses. Any adjustment in shortage areas between our two major campuses at Didsbury and Crewe would...
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Registering surprise
I was surprised to read of Hilary Wilson's experience on registration day at Royal Holloway (Letters, THES October 16). Our policy is to allow local education authority-assessed students to pay in...
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What's happening?
It is a bit rich of Richard Rorty, of all people, to complain that students these days have little sense of what's happening in the world ("Engage with the world", THES, October 16). Can this be the...
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Why I ... think heroin should be legalised
The prevalence of illicit drug use of all kinds has gone up and up among all sections of society, all age groups and across all drugs over the past 15 years. Alongside this we have had an increasing...