Russia's spurned reformer
Archie Brown contrasts Oxford's warm welcome for Gorbachev with the cold shoulder he gets from his countrymen. Mikhail Gorbachev is back in the news again - at least in the West. These days he is...
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Quarts into pint pots
Do not put today's Synthesis: Buildings and Estate Management in the bin unread. These are your working conditions it is talking about. This is also what "managerialism" in universities is about,...
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Blood, sweat and anxiety
After Success - Talking Work
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Dean of death
A university dean who has never visited a murder scene and has eyesight so poor he cannot even read a signed confession is now the best-known homicide expert in the US. Tim Cornwell reports....
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For whom the bell of the cashtill tolls
Are you PFIable? Alison Utley reports on research that says you are probably not. The Private Finance Initiative is endangering projects aimed at alleviating the most pressing social or economic...
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Ancestral thoughts
The Prehistory of the Mind - The Prehistory of Sex
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A Godless creed
Can one be religious and not believe in God? Gail Vines talks to the members of a movement who see no contradiction I am not a believer in the sense of believing in God the Father or Jesus Christ as...
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World constituency for a politics of learning
David Hunt, minister for public service and science, was glad-handing at the Web Days. He helped connect the first five secondary schools in the United Kingdom to the web and then formally acted as...
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Vocation found
The not-so-new vocational qualifications are here to stay. That is the message of The THES survey on perceptions of NVQs and GNVQs in further and higher education institutions. FE colleges are...
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Events
DESIRING PRACTICES. "Desiring Practices" is a series of free architecture and design exhibitions being held in London and highlighting the importance of gender roles in new practices in architecture...
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Fables from a Russian lair
In the last of our series on favourite films, Keith Griffiths savours the richness of Yuri Norstein's Tale of Tales. The Russian filmmaker Yuri Norstein has made only a handful of short animated...
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Net closes on rights
Copyright has survived the tape recorder and the photocopier. How it will emerge from its tangle with the computer, the Internet and the burgeoning digital media industry is still an open question....
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Grammar's lost generation
Twentysomethings are desperate to learn correct and accessible English, says Gerry Kreibich. If the hullabaloo about allegedly appalling standards of literacy among ll-year-olds has a happy ending -...
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Are you a key FOB?
An awful lot of people are banking on a Labour government beating a path to their door for advice. An awful lot of them are going to be disappointed. Brian Brivati predicts who will be called and who...
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Ideas behind the launch of morale-saving scientists
In your "News in Brief" item (THES, June 16) you state that the Labour Party has launched an initiative - Scientists for Labour (SfL). This is not an entirely accurate description of the genesis of...