Charge of the slight brigade
The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Army
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Humpty-Dumpty Hibernianism
Heathcliff and The Great Hunger
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Kultur v. politique
German Ideology
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Princely state full of paupers' graves
India, Pakistan and the Kashmir Dispute
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Pukka purveyors of martial arts
The Sepoy and the Raj - Fidelity and Honour - The Development of British Land Forces in South Asia, 1600-1947
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The speech of pariahs
Diversity in Japanese Culture and Language
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Rangoon rap
Burmese
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a 20th-century writer interested in a degree of sexual latitude: "Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they...
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Summer of discontent
A third semester would reduce choice and damage the quality of higher education, argues Ann Cotterrell. Some institutions are to receive funds to cover the set-up costs of a teaching semester in the...
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Hath not a drama teacher eyes?
Peter Cox argues (THES, August 11) "the pursuit of educational drama . . . by enthusiasts has been largely responsible for drama being excluded from the National Curriculum as a subject in its own...
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Western lefties baulk at new mind set required
The answers to Perspective's questions (THES, August 4) reveal another difference between pre-war appeasement and today's Balkan crisis. In the late 1930s, European liberal and left-thinking circles...
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Hostage to a silent revolution
There is a silent revolution going on in the research councils, receiving too little comment from academia though it threatens to undermine research objectivity, thus potentially siphoning research...
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Italians spurn HE
University enrolment in Italy has fallen for the first time since the second world war. In 1994/95, 5.2 per cent fewer students enrolled than in 1993/94, writes Paul Bompard. The Central Statistics...
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Poles' vaulting ambition
Student numbers in Polish higher education seem set to continue to rise even though, in defiance of government policy, the state universities have recruited 5,000 fewer full-time students than last...
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Law dean quits after arrest
The dean of the faculty of law at the University of Nairobi has resigned following his arrest and detention for three hours at a police station for discussing political matters over a cup of tea with...