Time and place
Your typo blunted A. G. Williams's point: The Making of the English Landscape, which inspired so many field archaeologists as well as historians, was published in 1955 not 1995. Before that, for...
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The art of being black
Claire Alexander goes in search of the complex identity of young black Britain that lies behind the popular stereotypes. In the wake of the recent wave of media infatuation, I have to confess that it...
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Relations with poor
Sir Ron Dearing's idea to "enthuse the poor" (THES, October 25) has its origins earlier than the Robbins report. In 1884 the Rev Samuel Barnett opened Toynbee Hall in the Commercial Road, Whitechapel...
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Are students a therapists' gravy train?
Lecturers Laura Spira and Mark Griffiths argue that students face unprecedented stresses and financial hardship today. Both disparage Jennie Bristow's suggestion that if she can handle student life,...
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Are students a therapists' gravy train?
When I read Jennie Bristow's article (THES, October 18) I felt no immediate need to respond as I thought that Laurie Taylor was foxing us by moving his column from the back page. I obviously confused...
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Marxism is not dead
John Ashworth and Helena Cronin (THES, October 18) assert that so called "Marxist political systems" across the world have been repudiated following the dissolution of the USSR and that, along with...
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The folly of the ivy?
As four British universities prepare to join an international network, Simon Midgley and Geoff Maslen examine university links and the feasibility of a world super league of institutions. Education...
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Ideology ends official quest for quality picture
The ELECTION of a conservative government in Australia last March saw the end of the only official system of ranking universities, writes Geoff Maslen. The former Labor government introduced annual...
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Grapevine guide to a spread of excellence
Italy has no independent organisation for evaluating universities in terms of standards and productivity. What is known about universities and single departments is the result of direct knowledge,...
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All colleges great and small know their place
LATE last month, the University of California at Davis, a 24,000-student campus which made its name fostering the California wine industry, got an unusual offer. The president of the Association of...
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Superbug battle zone
Scientists are uniting in the war against drug-defying superbugs by setting up a multi-disciplinary centre dedicated to the fight. Concern is mounting worldwide over the resurgence of diseases like...
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Milk of human delusions
Schizophrenics who are taught to put their delusions to the test go on to make speedier recoveries from acute psychosis than patients receiving more established therapies, according to a study co-...
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Scientists urged to leave labs in hunt for mates
Evolutionary psychologists know that we are all instinctively drawn to people with good looks. But they still have to explain how we sift through the available population to find a spouse, according...
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Collider slides off course
The future of the Large Hadron Collider, the giant particle physics laboratory being built at Cern in Geneva, hung in the balance yesterday. Germany's recent non-negotiable demand for a cut of 8.5...
