Sean Clarke worked as a strippergram to finance his studies - until he got caught with his pants down. "How the hell did things end up like this?" I found myself wondering gloomily as I lay face down...
Susan Palmer and Bryan Sentes say that the cloned baby furore raises wider questions about our belief in scientific and technological progress On December , the private corporation Clonaid announced...
Universities need cash, students need support and there are too few working-class entrants. After a two-year extension, Charles Clarke and the class of '73 are all set to deliver answers to these...
Alison Wolf is right to bemoan the detachment of A levels from universities (Opinion, THES , January 10). I have been involved with post-16 economics examinations for about 15 years. Originally...
Alison Wolf rightly deplores the loss of university control over the school curriculum, but in her book Does Education Matter? she distinguishes between education proper - higher education - and...
Michael Rutter calls my book The Blank Slate "intemperate" ( THES , December 13) and its main premise - that many intellectuals believe the mind is a blank slate - "simply nonsense", "tabloid...
I was flattered that my appointment as dean of the London College of Printing Media School featured in "In the News" ( THES , January 10), but I did not make the decision to shift the timing of TV's...
The alleged unanimous statement about my departure as vice-chancellor of Wi****ersrand University to which Wits registrar D. K. Swemmer referred (Letters, THES , January 10) was nothing of the sort....
We have observed with pride the career of our alumna Norma Reid Birley, which culminated in her becoming vice-chancellor of Wi****ersrand. The reflections on her competence and the questioning of her...
A quarter of a century ago, the University of Oxford's department of educational studies might well have been a conduit through which Oxford graduates moved into independent schools ("Top teachers go...
What evidence is there that having a first or even a PhD makes you a better teacher? The comment that "students in state schools are being short-changed by not having access to the most highly...
The "export" of children to Australia, Canada and New Zealand by some voluntary childcare agencies is not "Britain's guilty secret" (Don's Diary, THES , January 10). The subject has been covered in...
Higher education needs more working-class academics, not just students, if it is to ensure real equality and progress ("Will rich ideas tackle a very poor show?", THES , January 10). These academics...
Nick Petford in his review of Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History of the Modern Theory of the Earth (Books, THES , January 3) writes of sociological theories that "claim that hypothesis testing...
Susan Bassnett (Soapbox, THES , January 10) is right to deplore the confusion over the criteria and processes by which PhDs are awarded in the humanities. She is less justified, however, in expecting...