Truths and facts in history
PROFESSOR Evans is right to criticise the potential narcissism of postmodern approaches to historical study, but he should not overlook the problems raised by such approaches. Any attempt to...
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Truths and facts in history
Richard Evans was partly wrong about Edward Thompson in his anti-postmodernist polemic. Ironic, in that Evans was insisting that it is the quality of evidence that can distinguish the worth of one...
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Luton's case of antithesis
THE chortling in your Antithesis column (THES, September 12) about Luton's Investors in People status is, I am happy to say, premature. We have not lost our IiP recognition: we were visited in July,...
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Don's Diary
Monday A start-of-term feeling pervades the office. In July a ballot authorised the merger between the Association of University and College Lecturers and the Association of University Teachers and...
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Valued for access or attributes?
What is the societal function of universities? Equal and better access is supposed to level the educational terrain but how does this manifest in what Carol Schneider calls the public square or what...
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Enchant our sense not sentimentality
I have mixed feelings about the reconstructed Globe theatre. I support the project, but at a recent performance I was struck by the dangerous historical sentimentality of it all. This was a building...
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In Goebbel's shadow
Tim Cornwell reports on the furore surrounding a former Third Reich propagandist who became one of the world's top pollsters To reach into the darkness to find the Jew who is hiding behind the...
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Armed forces seize books
Lagos. ARMED Nigerian security police have swooped on a university lecturer and his students as they tried to buy books by executed civil rights campaigner Ken Saro-Wiwa in the oil city of Port...
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Speaking the same language
(Photograph) - Japanese postgraduates Ami Fakuda and Sanae Izumi work on their English at the University of Leeds language centre to prepare themselves for their masters degrees
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Fact File
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: * 20 per cent of first-degree graduates go on to further study. * 55 per cent of the women who continued studying went on to...
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Value us more, plead sad MBAs
Employers do not appreciate employees with MBAs, a study from Imperial College Management School has found, writes Phil Baty. The study found that 57 per cent of the school's alumni believe that...
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Tobacco solves oil crisis
Biotechnology breakthroughs: starch and evening primrose oil yields and the use of holograms Sunflowers or oilseed rape could prove a richer source of evening primrose oil than evening primrose...
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We are what we eat
(Photograph) - We are what we eat: As new technologies offer improved yields (page 9), the public fears that European and UK controls over food have more to do with encouraging trade and protecting...
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Work to begin on degree standards
New minimum degree standards are to be piloted immediately by the Quality Assurance Agency for higher education, it was revealed this week. Pilots for the so-called "threshold" standards, which will...
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UFI is tipped to up intakes
The government's planned University for Industry can provide the next upward shift in higher education participation rates, says one of the directors of the pilot project to be launched next week....