Michael Byers, Fellow in international law, Oxford University, Legal adviser to the Chilean victims of Augusto Pinochet I was approached last month by a group of Chilean victims and organisations...
Is psychoanalysis finished? No, says Anthony Elliott No modern thinker has affected our views on identity and sexuality as forcefully as Sigmund Freud. Yet, according to some critics, especially in...
How can chemists turn base elements into gold? Well, they could emulate Peter Atkins and start writing phenomenally successful textbooks. Kam Patel reports. A few weeks ago, at his Royal Institution...
The writing of textbooks needs to be encouraged, argues Steven Kennedy Thomas Kuhn in his classic 1962 text, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions , highlighted the role of textbooks in sustaining...
Books are the basic tool of education, and in buying them students seek value for money, says John Davies. My ideal book would be not too heavy, have a nice cover, a clear contents page with chapters...
It is perhaps an indication of what a sad, empty life I have led that I have in my time memorised, word for word, two textbooks. The first was a history textbook that I used at school, the title, and...
Welcome to the first THES Textbook Guide . The provision of materials for teaching and learning is a subject of great debate in higher education. This new guide will be exclusively devoted to...
A row has erupted in France over the 1999 national census plans to include a sample survey on the ethnic origin of respondents. The National Statistics and Economic Studies Institute, which organises...
A lecturer at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology could have sustained permanent eye damage after a student used a laser pointer during a lecture. The university said...
The website (www.ncwe.com) for the National Centre for Work Experience is not up and running. Any readers wanting its booklet on what employers expect students to learn from work experience should...
Nurses are not carrying on Pay is at the top of the nursing agenda, and the annual Review Body, chaired by former Oxford Brookes University vice-chancellor Clive Booth, is taking evidence. The Royal...
Phil Baty joins a driving instructor and decorator on an access course to teaching Like the group of adult learners she is taking today for an access to higher education seminar, Helen Deane, 37, has...
Nurses are not carrying on The United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting is investing Pounds 500,000 in its education review, which could, with government approval,...
Nurses are not carrying on The United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting's review will investigate attrition rates from university nursing courses - a critical issue...
* At its annual general meeting last night, the Edinburgh University students' association was set to vote on whether to hold a referendum on joining the National Union of Students Scotland.