A national measure for minds
The debate about teaching, learning and assessment in higher education sometimes seems a long way from what matters most - the individual student's overall intellectual and personal experience of...
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Fair dinkum fee paying
Australia, land of the fair go, is widely perceived as having a student support system that is one of the best and fairest in the world. Federally funded higher education institutions are (currently...
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Don's Diary
Wednesday. It is bitterly cold as I set off from Gatwick. At the check-in a man asks the purpose of my visit. I tell him I'm going to a conference in Columbia, South Carolina, and he says he has just...
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When the limelight gets turned off
Education is emerging as the decisive election battleground. For Labour, like many left-wing parties, education has taken on a particular symbolic and practical importance. It is being presented not...
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Much ado
Jonathan Bates fears for the future of the Arden Shakespeare Prologue Editing Shakespeare is like painting the Forth Rail Bridge: no sooner have you finished than new knowledge and new approaches...
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The last chapter of a Jewish chronicle?
The Jews of Europe are fast disappearing and the Continent will be the poorer for it, argues Bernard Wasserstein Bad news is never welcome. So I suppose I should not have been surprised at the chorus...
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Reading, a city dreaming of spires
Higher education has expanded enormously in the past few years, but it was not always so easy. Ged Martin catalogues some centuries-old attempts to found British universities. Britain and Ireland now...
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When the anoraks wear mink
Sociologist Sherry Turkle talks to Aisling Irwin about the potential and pitfalls of reconstructing oneself in virtual reality Tarniwoof said: "Do you promise to take Silver Shimmering Winterlight as...
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Mother Earth's vociferous children
George McKay reports on the rise of small-scale 'in-yer-face' non-violent protesting. In his 1960s classic, The Making of a Counter Culture, Theodore Roszak pointed to parliamentary stalemate as one...
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Sex and the single gene
Talk of a "gay gene" has raised fears that genetic engineering could eliminate homosexuality. But Simon Le Vay argues that its discovery may have a positive effect on public attitudes A recent spate...
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Stability divided by three
As a nation plagued by a 'million mutinies' goes to the polls, Gurharpal Singh examines the three parties vying for power. With India in the midst of general elections, the credentials of the world's...
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Marching orders
(Photograph) - Marching orders: Alan Carling, one of the many academics at Bradford University who marched with students into the city centre on Monday as part of a national campaign against higher...
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MPs bite back over genetics watchdog
The Government has decided to review its decision not to set up a human genetics commission following an angry outcry from MPs who originally proposed the body. The idea of a commission came from the...
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Pass the Prozac, I've writer's block
The suffering writers undergo for their art may be unnecessary as writers on Prozac can be just as creative, the author of a new study claims. Felix Post, emeritus physician at the Bethlem Royal...
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Alarm at lecturer stand-ins
Research students are teaching first-year undergraduates in many universities when less than a third of them have received training, according to a union survey to be published in July. The findings...