Joyce and the Jews
I have read with alarm in Suman Gupta's piece (THES, November 15) that a writer's racism does affect his or her literary status. While not wishing to engage in a specific debate along this line, I...
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Morale of morals
In the announcement ("Firms favour director dons", THES, November 1) of an otherwise noteworthy initiative by the Employers for Higher Education forum, I was saddened to see ethics described as an "...
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Don's Diary
Sunday. This is the last week of a four-week research trip to the city of Tianjin in north China to look at the city government's provision of community services. These have been promoted nationally...
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Traditions lost in the market-place
In this, my last column before being what the editors euphemistically call "rested", I want to address some broader issues about the nature and purposes of higher education that the Dearing inquiry...
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Cities light torch of excellence
One of the most remarkable developments in the 20th century is the way modern education has become accepted as the norm throughout the world. All those who regularly attend meetings on education...
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The family valued
The supposed decline of the family has long excited moralists and politicians eager to make its threatened status anelection issue. Now sociologist Stein Ringen is about to offer them some...
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Folk fictions
Was Carl Jung a fraud? Richard Noll has no doubts. In Ben Jonson's searing satire The Alchemist, an alchemist deceives one customer after another, promising the "philosopher's stone" or the "...
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Club ties sideline oval ball tradition
Huw Richards reports on the future of that most ancient of university sports, rugby union, now that it is played by professionals and awash with lucre. All other things were merely side issues. We...
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Mutiny on the Isis
Oxford's crew in the 1987 boat race with Cambridge was riven by a mutiny so dramatic that Channel Four has turned it into a film. Chris Johnston reports. Mutinies have been synonymous with ships...
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Further learning
The Further Education Funding Council is considering launching a five-year college staff development programme in information and learning technology. The idea comes from the FE Development Agency...
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Microsoft audit
The Open University is the first to have been audited for pirate software under Microsoft's select audit programme hit-squad. The OU's Pounds 500,000 of software on Pounds 6 million of hardware was...
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Swansea wired
Academics and local business leaders have joined in a Pounds 3 million initiative to make Swansea the UK's first "wired-up" city. The project, run by the University of Wales Swansea, aims to copy...
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Death probe
An investigation has been launched into the death of a student at Basingstoke College of Technology in Hampshire. The Health and Safety Executive and the North Hampshire coroner are investigating the...
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Twirls with moustache
Ford Madox Ford - Ford Madox Ford
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Browning version
Epic Reinvented