First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is taken from a work by a novelist remembered for her writing for children: "When Mary Lennox was sent to...
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Voices of recent past stifle other speakers
Historians on History
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Which straw broke the back of British agriculture?
The Agrarian History of England and Wales Volume 7 1850-1914
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Laurie Taylor column
Intellectual evolution may stop unless universities make learning easier - THES , September 6. Ah, Doctor Bridges, there you are. Please take a seat. My name is Dave Struthers and I'm chairperson of...
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Leader: Europe must not let rivalries snare research agenda
This week's wrangle over the forthcoming Framework programme for research shows that the European Research Area planned in Brussels will be complex to implement. The argument involves sore points...
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Leader: Quality regime enters uncharted territory
Universities presumably anticipated some discontent among professional bodies such as the Law Society when they were lobbying for the abolition of teaching quality assessments. Like prospective...
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Time for your history lesson, prime minister
History must set out its stall to policy-makers to persuade political advisers that it is perilous to neglect the past or to rely on Timewatch when you are trying to influence the future. Karen Gold...
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Is filling the shelves of your college library a community service?
Universities have been accused of exploiting work-study, which aims to help students pay education costs in return for work in the public interest. Stephen Phillips reports Providence, Rhode Island,...
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A wet fish in the UK's think-tank?
Will the new Higher Education Policy Institute be just an arm of the funding councils? asks Stephen Court, who takes a look at the education work of Britain's think-tanks In the world of higher...
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Let loose on the net, students indulge political paranoias
Beverley Milton-Edwards, winner of the LTSN/ THES e-tutor award, found herself ambushed in a virtual world when she put Middle East politics online Sometimes teaching Middle East politics in a place...
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Cutting edge: Time to sharpen up those bricks-and-mortar brains
Essex researchers are determined to make buildings more intelligent - but watch out, they could make your computer disappear. Sue Sharples explains Intelligent buildings" have existed for years -...
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Craft of the crafty playwright
Alan Ayckbourn has written more than 60 plays and directed many others. Now a year teaching modules on the theatre has inspired him to reveal his skills in a 'how-to' book. Oliver Double gets a few...
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Dynamic, frenzied, vigorous - it must be the Kiwis
New Zealand's answer to Simon Schama, Jamie Belich, has been busy exploding historical myths of a dull, unemotional nation. Huw Richards reports on his latest study - how 'Angloworld' developed Being...
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Science teaching must change 1
Tony Gardiner's argument against the recommendations of recent reports on science and maths education ("Policy does not add up", THES , September 6), to one of which I acted as adviser, displays such...
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Science teaching must change 2
Claire Sanders's report ("Search for the formula to put the spark in science", THES , September 6) rightly highlights some of the major issues facing higher education in attracting students into...