Higher channels
John Davies casts an academic eye over the schedules. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Should we take Europe's far right seriously? BBC2 thinks so; this week it has a "season" about it...
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A history of gripping invention
TV's Bionic Man inspired Peter Kyberd to invent a microprocessor-controlled artificial hand. Alison Goddard reports on the young scientist giving one of the Royal Institution's 200th anniversary...
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Friction in the diction
Psychologist Steven Pinker calls Noam Chomsky 'a pen and paper theoretician', while Chomsky criticises Pinker's 'terrible reasoning'. Now Pinker is further testing Chomsky's controversial language...
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Schooled in cynicism
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals' response to evidence of widespread, institutional sex discrimination, resulting in systematic underpayment of women, surprises even this jaded...
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Cut your cloth...
The presentation of the two arguments, should fashion students be taught to take risks or to play it safe ("Cutting it in the fashion world", THES, March 5) misses one of the basic tenets of British...
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E-book binds
There are problems with electronic publishing (Soapbox, THES, March 5). First is the problem of copyright, both regarding the e-book (who owns it - author or site provider?) and the extracts in it (...
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E-book binds
It may be a little early to pronounce the death of the monograph. New printing technologies already allow small runs without incurring high overheads. In both electronic and carbon-on-paper...
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They're the real thing
It was heartening to read that the new universities' achievements in promoting access will be reflected in increased funding ("Elite trumped in access stakes", THES, March 5). It was also good to...
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Fee radicals
The recommendation by David Roberts ("Fees hike would not deter undergraduates", THES, February 26) that a rise in tuition fees would not put students off applying for university is preposterous. Mr...
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Points of principality
John Naylon's view (Eyewitness, THES, February 19) that Andorra offers Gibraltar a promising precedent of "joint sovereignty" overlooks the fact that Andorra is an independent country that is a...
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Save our science
What is wrong with the way we do science? Susan Greenfield gave Tony Blair suggestions for reform The best type of science discovery is that which departs radically from what has gone before and...
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Nuts and bolt-ons
Olga Wojtas talks to a sociologist who is fighting Australia's study skills centre establishment. Growing numbers of British universities are setting up study skills centres to help students make the...
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Star Turn
A Havard psychology professor, master of mirth and all-round high-flier shares his coloured lecture notes with Jon Marcus. By the end of his weekly two-hour lecture on adult learning and professional...
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Demos designs on 21st century
The Design Council is planning to launch an ambitious project on education in a competitive, knowledge-driven economy. Work will include commissioning a report from think-tank Demos on the main...
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Farming colleges till soil together
Four agricultural colleges are uniting in a consortium to explore ways of enhancing land-based education and training. Bishop Burton College, East Yorkshire, Harpury College, Gloucestershire,...