Professors on move
I was surprised at the letter headed "Amazing dancing profs". Surely the writer and subeditor know that Christopher Bannerman has the chair in dance at Middlesex University, and is internationally...
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Driven to crime
Lecturer Jim Hawes is on the road to fame and fortune with his first novel, A White Merc with Fins. Huw Richards reports. Hawes the novelist Brady wanted a real gun, he insisted on a real gun, the...
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Less Minerva, more Venus
Tim Cornwell discovers that sex is contributing to the demise of an American academic institution. John Rawls's Theory of Justice began life as a monograph; so did Benedict Anderson's "imagined...
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Unfinished business
Nancy Folbre argues that women are not yet powerful enough to persuade men to share the costs of child-care. Gender is now an indispensable word in the economic development vocabulary. Most...
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Rock of ages
David Walker talks to the enduring music critic and professor Simon Frith. A funny thing happened on the way to the Mercury Music Awards this year. Pop music became front-page news in a way it had...
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Brutality management
As the carnage in Bosnia ends, Richard Clogg asks if there are lessons in an earlier episode of ethnic engineering. Twenty miles of carts I with exhausted, staggering men, women and children,...
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Women to watch
Joanna Gray and E. Stina Lyon (THES, November 17) highlight gender issues raised by the research assessment exercise, but both may have underestimated its contribution to the emergence of "new...
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Hybrid ripe for change
Anthea Millett explains the Teacher Training Agency's proposals for reform. The recent launch of a consultation paper on the future funding of initial teacher training met with a disappointing...
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A level guide to ability
Two of the four letters responding to my article (Personal View, THES, November 17) on the national scandal of disparate A-level grades in different subjects, referred with great confidence to "...
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A level guide to ability
I waited with increasing frustration for Simon Szreter to entertain the notion that those studying for A levels in the hard sciences and in languages might be more likely to achieve high grades...
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A level guide to ability
Simon Szreter's view on A level grades is an astonishing misuse of statistics. He argues that, because a higher proportion of A-level candidates gain A and B grades in some subjects than in others,...
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Confucius and chips
They will be dancing in the streets of the Chinese capital Beijing tonight, as they do every night. There will be long, sinuous serpentine dragon dances in the quiet squares, and, in the underpasses...
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Don's Diary
Day one. Picnic breakfast in Moscow's Belgrad Hotel, en route to Crimea '95 conference on libraries in a transient world, with generous support from British Council. Join ten other delegates from the...
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Time to push the reactive button
As we contemplate yet another deeply disappointing public expenditure settlement, university and college staff throughout the United Kingdom must be wondering just what they have to do to recreate...
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A good man in Africa
Palaeontologist turned politician Richard Leakey makes no bones about corruption in his beloved Kenya. Aisling Irwin reports. I have been accused by the president of Kenya of being a racist and of...