Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a pre-war high-flier with a mystical streak: "Only the Spirit, breathing upon the clay, can create Man." Entries should be submitted to Final Word, The ThEs, Admiral...
Search
-
-
How to measure mission success
When higher education minister Tim Boswell spoke to the recent English funding council conference, the media predictably focused on his criticism of the council's and Committee for Vice Chancellors...
-
Opinion
The letter from N. G. McCrum (THES April 21) should have stated that in 1993, the ratio of A and B grades obtained by girls taking modern language A levels to those obtained by boys was 0.90, a small...
-
Hi-tech bid for station site
The University of North London and the National Film and Television School made a joint bid this week for Millenium funds to turn derelict lands and buildings behind King's Cross station, London,...
-
Final word
This week's Final Word comes from a pre-war high-flier with a mystical streak: "Only the Spirit, breathing upon the clay, can create Man." The winner of last week's competition, who correctly...
-
Speaking Volumes: Moby-Dick
A. Robert Lee on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick . A summer vacation job clerking at the Army and Navy Store in 1963 might not seem the likeliest of contexts for a first close encounter with Moby-Dick....
-
Exhibition "New Tech Styles" at Nottingham Trent University's Bonington Gallery
(Photograph) - Fab fabrics: The work of leading artists and designers using new technology to produce unusual textiles is featured in an exhibition "New Tech Styles" at Nottingham Trent University's...
-
Fish zone system hooked to eco-rape
Canada and Spain may have kissed and made up, but the future of the North Atlantic fishing industry remains in the balance because the 200-mile zone system enshrined in current international law...
-
Tigers, tigers spurning rights
The West may believe that its concept of democracy should be applied universally but many in East Asia insist on an alternative model. Michael Leifer reports. When the Cold War ended the ideological...
-
Harmonising Hellenist
John Davies meets Pat Easterling, Cambridge's first female regius professor of Greek. It is hard to find a bad word said about Patricia Easterling. The newly appointed regius professor of Greek at...
-
A negative result
David Edmonds on the campaign to outlaw affirmative action in the US. James Meredith wanted to study at his local state university. But when he sought to enrol there in 1962, President John F....
-
Mind your language
Each time the world loses one of its tongues it may also be losing a unique insight into the structure of the human brain. David Charter reports Waimiri-Atroari is a language used exclusively by 500...
-
A cat among the pidgins
Simon Targett meets the psycholinguist seducing the public with talk of occipital lobes, Steven Pinker (below) Syntax, inflectional morphology, diphthongs, the cerebral cortex and the occipital lobe...
-
Happy, chez Heller
While simultaneously on the phone to Chicago and trying to find a book on his desk, the man - who was a total stranger to me -asked: "Are you interested in the history of European cities from the...
-
Ensure seal is intact before use
Not for the first time, I have been musing ruefully on the apparently unavoidable tension that exists between seeking to inform colleagues about what is happening to their institution and why, and...