Picasso's conscience
Picasso's biographer and friend John Richardson tells Kam Patel how the artist struggled to cope with being so far ahead of his peers and why his misogyny should be seen incontext. When the young...
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Beware the jargon in academic-speak
THIS month the Plain English Campaign announced its list of shame, that is, public bodies and private firms found guilty of providing information that is difficult or impossible for ordinary people...
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Anxiety about feel good factor
Nearly a third of GP practices offer patients counselling, but how effective is it? GOOD counselling in general medical practice can more than halve the severity of patient anxiety, according to...
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Therapy the doctor ordered
Nearly a third of GP practices offer patients counselling, but how effective is it? COUNSELLING services at local doctors' surgeries may not be so good for patients' health, according to the author...
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What a Quanca
Hard to tell at this stage how the merged National Council for Vocational Qualifications and Schools Curriculum Assessment Authority will fare, but we forecast a dazzling career in rhyming slang for...
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Stoke set to axe 200 staff jobs
Stoke-on-Trent College is planning to axe 200 jobs to save Pounds 8 million on its Pounds 30 million annual budget, writes Chris Johnston. The college missed student recruitment targets by per cent...
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Jungian analysts step into critical minefield
THE CONCEPT of collective unconscious that Richard Noll excoriates may not be quite what he supposes. No one doubts that our instincts are shared with the animals. There is a band at the top of...
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Bring back humans
IF THE prospect of being replaced by a computer was not alarming enough ("Lecturers frozen out", THES, November 22), I was incensed to read that this was to be the result of "student-centred"...
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Teacher agency strikes wrong note
IN READING Anthea Millett's reply to lan Kane "Important tasks for the TTA" I was immediately reminded of one of D. H. Lawrence's lines: "Never trust the artist. Trust the tale." There will be loud...
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Sheep may safely gaze
The sanity of the men from the ministry is the only thing at risk from the dissection of sheep's eyes The prohibition by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of the use of sheep's eyes for...
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How v-cs could play a loan hand
The Australian senate was debating the higher education sections of the Howard government's summer budget this week. The package puts most of the burden of savings from higher education on students...
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Law lecturer feeds Serbian pride
The war is not over for some people in the Balkans. Politicians have signed the Dayton agreement and soldiers put their guns away, but some university professors are still fighting the academic...
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Stuart first
IT WAS interesting to watch Vernon Bogdanor define the trap into which he feels Roy Strong has fallen and then tumble in himself (THES, November 29). Surely a Stuart taking over from a Tudor in 1603...
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President gets tough on draft
Latvian president Guntis Ulmanis has refused to sign the controversial national service law that sparked huge student protests last April because it does not go far enough. But the decision is no...
