Glittering prizes
Merryn Hutchings, reader in education at the University of North London, has received the British Educational Research Association Dissertation Award for her PhD thesis, Children's Constructions of...
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Please sir, why should anyone want to teach?
Widening access to higher education is not the only goal of higher education (see letters opposite), but it is a good one for a government concerned with economic performance and social cohesion....
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Nine hours to live in Eden
Mike Sharples experiences the intellectual thrill and moral challenge of cyberbiology Creatures 2. Mindscape, Pounds 39.95. (online store: www. mindscape.com) +1 800 716 8503. Windows 95/98. On just...
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Agony Aunt
"I am about to start my first lecturing job and wonder if I need a Follet-style makeover. Money is tight but I want to look professional for students and also approachable. Any tips?" A lecturer....
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Tall order
Tall order: Gerry McDonnell of Bradford University is investigating the iron industry run by Cistercian monks at Rievaulx Abbey, North Yorks
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Renaissance will follow reform in 21st century
As Unesco attempts to create a new order for higher education, Federico Mayor explains why it is needed When Unesco began the process leading up to next week's World Conference on Higher Education in...
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Access: an unhealthy obsession
Instead of seizing lifelong learning and developing a stimulating vision for an inclusive, interactive yet excellent higher education system, we seem to be driving down a narrow road obsessed with...
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Minority myths
It was correctly reported that the Teacher Training Agency's published performance profiles on initial teacher training are already out of date (THES, September 25). Unfortunately this was not taken...
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Minority myths
Anthea Millett ("Black to the future in the classroom", THES, September 25), seems to perpetuate three myths that are part of the problem in increasing the number of people from ethnic minorities in...
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Minority myths
For The THES to ask whether colleges should accept students with lower A-level scores to boost the numbers of black teachers is an insult to black and ethnic minority teachers, since available...
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In short ...
The option of arbitration is not, as Dennis Farrington describes it, "yet another litigious procedure" (Letters, THES, September 18), but a genuine alternative to the combative, slow and costly legal...
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In short ...
We know league tables are here to stay (THES, September 25). They sell newspapers and books. They allow education editors to support articles with some "evidence". They are the creation of...
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In short ...
I do not deny the need for modules such as "Varieties of speaking and writing" developed at Anglia Polytechnic University ("Teach students how to communicate", THES, September 18), but I doubt they...
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Balancing act
As the debate surrounding the targeting of more than 100 staff for severance/early retirement at Queen's University of Belfast continues to gather momentum, there are two issues that have...
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Literary cash and canons
In the Booker prize, literature, money and PR merge. Judge Valentine Cunningham discusses how the prize shapes our study of fiction The shortlist for the 30th Booker prize is out. After 124 novels,...