Tips for tutors
(drawn up by students) 1. Get a copy of yourstudent's working hours/ shifts and check regularly to see if they have changed 2. Where possible, try tohelp students find part-time work related to their...
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Is earning and learning good or bad for students?
Bad for you - "low-paid, unsafe, and in extreme cases, dangerous" I am not saying students should not work. I am saying students should not have to work. For many, part-time study while continuing to...
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Is earning and learning good or bad for students?
Good for you - "experience working with others, preparing for a career" The reality is that most students are already working their way through university. With the contraction of the student grant...
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Managing a betting shop ... male modelling ... waiting on tables: this is how your students make ends meet
James Dick, 22, is a fourth-year geography student at Glasgow University. He works as a waiter 20-24 hours over four nights a week. He earnsPounds 4 per hour. James Dick replied to a window...
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The latest in silicon implants
Kevin Warwick is experimenting with new relationships between man and machines. Harriet Swain visited the man with a chip in his arm You never know," says Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at...
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Helping Julie stand on her feet
Julie Hill is paralysed from the waist down. Yet with the aid of researchers from University College London she is cycling with her family again. Tim Perkins describes the work Eight years ago Julie...
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Confusion and medical ethics
Is it really ethical to ask an Alzheimer's sufferer to take part in scientific research? asks Alison Goddard Five years ago David Edmonds realised that his father, Ronald, was suffering from...
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A fresh look at the wonders of Marvell
Who will shine in 1999? In the first of a series, Harriet Swain meets the English academics' English academic Old battles over literary theory are passe. Today's issues exercising the minds of...
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Cult of the indie visual
Andrew Davies created a cult university satire and adapted Vanity Fair for the BBC. He talks to John Davies about his transition from academic to screen writer Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, Moll...
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Higher channels
John Davies, the thinking person's previewer, scans the schedules for you. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Fifty years ago, on December 10, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights...
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Theology turns the other cheek
Chris Lote writes, "On the scientific level we understand the reason for religions", and then proceeds to present a set of personal prejudices as fact. Who are the scientists to whom s/he refers? Is...
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Theology turns the other cheek
Chris Lote's letter displays the kind of bad logic, simplistic theory and incipient racism that I find extraordinary in a high-level academic. His assertion that the principal reason for religion is...
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Thames teaching
As elected members of the academic board of Thames Valley University, representing academic staff, we would like to point out that if the views of teaching staff had been listened to earlier, the...
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Thames teaching
On Mike Fitzgerald's resignation, I am concerned that a myth is being created of someone who was a visionary but could not deliver. This is not the Mike Fitzgerald I have known and respected for more...
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When artists lose the plot
Art schools are turning out romantic narcissists, ignorant of the real world, argues Paul Bonaventura. There is, I believe, a fundamental problem with today's visual arts. Put simply, the larger...